Ich wollte, DGT konnte besser, es war besser wenn.....
All I read is critics from a very narrow point of view. For example not enough levels. Let me make a comparison. I like Jigsaw puzzles. But I would never buy a puzzle from 100 pieces. It would rather be 1000. For children who just start 25 would be beter. The Centaur plays on both levels “friendly” and “challenging” from 25 to 3000 pieces.

A few weeks ago I took my Centaur to my 7 year old grandson. I explained the rules of chess an we started to play. And he loved it. No moves that had to be entered, no pressure on the squares, just move the pieces. Made a mistake? Just take the move back. So now he is playing on a 100 pieces level. And when he gets better to lets say 250 pieces, so will the Centaur.

The Centaur isn’t made to play against other computers, it isn’t made for analyses. It’s made for fun playing chess. It’s perfect for every basic school to teach children to play chess. It’s perfect for a lot of situations. It’s just not good for a chess computer community.

I can understand the disappointment from some of you, but if DGT would change the Centaur into something you want, it would just become another chess computer instead of the unique device it is right now. That would not be desirable in my opinion and a big disappointment to everyone who loves it the way it is. No matter how imperfect it looks to you, for me it’s just great the way it is.