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Which electronic chessboard is best for me?

I want to play with my friend over the board and analyze the game on lichess afterwards.

Things I want:
- Solid good quality board.
- Good quality pieces (weight is good, design is good).
- Dark squares are dark, light squares are light.
- Black pieces are black, white pieces are white.
- Board electronically recognizes which piece is on which square.
- Board can make a pgn of a game that is played on the board.
- After a game is played, send the pgn wirelessly to my device (bluetooth?)

Things I don't want:
- Don't want rollup or bendy or foldable board.
- Don't want luxury materials (gold, silver, ebony, etc.) or ornamentation.
- Don't want to have to push down on the piece before or after moving.
- Don't want software integration with any online site like lichess or its competitors.
- Don't want to install custom app on my device, if possible.
- Don't want to play against an AI on the board.
- Don't want to play internet games on the board.
- Don't want to load games to replay on the board.
- Don't want integrated game clock.
- Don't want the board giving hints or eval or unnecessary interruption during play.
- Don't want pieces to move on the board automatically (magnets, robotics, etc.)

I saw some electronic boards on the internet like some by DGT or Certabo or SquareOff but I'm not sure they are best for what I want.
It sounds like the good old DGT boards you see at tournaments is what you want.
Thanks guys the bluetooth dgt is a thousand dollars is this real life?
The expense does seem excessive for the simplicity of the task. Seems like something a video-based chessbot software could do (point a regular camera at a regular board to track the pieces and produce the pgn as a result). A great topic for chessvision.ai/ to take on.
In fact, I wonder if the normal chessvision app would be good enough if you mounted a webcam straight above the board and made chess pieces with tops that are shaped like standard chess icons when viewed from above. Like what if you just printed out and pasted them onto checkers pieces I'll bet it would work. I may have solved your problem for under $100!
I wonder why the cheapest one for what I want is a tousand dollars? Is it because the technology really needs a thousand dollars? The free market is broke? There is a crucial patent the competitors dont hve? There is no demand? Hyperinflation?
@ chessfan124 said in #9:
> I wonder why the cheapest one for what I want is a tousand dollars? Is it because the technology really needs a thousand dollars? The free market is broke? There is a crucial patent the competitors dont hve? There is no demand? Hyperinflation?
Probably... Or they just want your money!

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