- 【All-in-One Chessboard Solution】: Optimized for every chess enthusiast, Chessnut Evo combines a smart chessboard, AI-powered analysis, customizable engines, and seamless platform integration—all in one device.
- 【Dual AI Engines for Advanced Gameplay】: Equipped with the powerful Stockfish and Maia engines, Chessnut Evo offers both advanced analysis and personalized gameplay, providing an unmatched AI experience for all skill levels.
- 【Customizable Chess Engine to Match Your Style】: Tailor your chess experience with Chessnut Evo’s customizable engine, adjusting it to play like your favorite opponents by analyzing their gameplay history.
- 【Seamless Platform Integration & Flexible Game Modes】: Chessnut Evo supports a variety of popular platforms and game modes, allowing you to play online, against the AI, or customize your match settings for a personalized experience.
- 【Enhanced Gameplay with LED Lights and Precision Piece Recognition】: Colorful LED lights create a dynamic atmosphere, while accurate piece recognition ensures flawless gameplay and analysis, making every move count.
- 【Automatic Software Updates for Continuous Improvement】: Chessnut Evo is constantly evolving with automatic software updates, ensuring access to new features, improvements, and expanded platform support without any hassle.
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Evo AI Chessboard – Built-in Maia Engine, Customizable Chess Bot, Full Piece Recognition, Supports Major Platforms, Smart All-in-One Design
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Clark M –
I find the Evo more fun than I was expecting. I highly recommend this board for people wanting an electronic chess computer.
Chessnut vision reads a webpage chess board and works very well with Chess.com and ChessKid.com. I use vision for puzzles, lessons, playing bots, etc. Chessnut vision makes this the most versatile electronic board available. It’s helpful to get some 3D puzzle recognition practice.
Evo works for playing online opponents, but it is best at longer time rapid games where the time to move pieces is less of a penalty. It you are going to play online opponents, you will want to learn how to flip the board on the screen by swiping down and selecting the flip option, since you don’t know if you will be black or white before the games starts.
When playing online bots with no clock, Evo performs really well. Evo comes with built-in chess engines, so you can play locally against the Evo as well.
A wall charger is NOT included. A Power Deliver (PD) charger is recommended to get 18 watts of charging. Without a PD charger, it will charge at 5 watts. I use an Apple 20 watt charger and an extension cord.
My initial negative experience was that Evo doesn’t recognize sliding pieces, so until I got into the habit of picking up a piece and placing it, it would record the wrong move and cost me games. Chessnut recommends setting a recognition delay of four tenths of a second if you want to slide pieces. Since Evo can’t know when you stop touching the piece, it is better to just never slide your pieces. You can slide the opponent’s pieces since evo will wait for the piece to get to the right square.
The screen is high resolution and looks great. The speaker could be improved, but it works for my usage. I use the speaker to listen to chess lessons and follow along with them on the Evo physical board. It is faster to do lessons purely online, but it is sometimes fun to do a lesson on the physical board.
I tried Evo with the beta of Chess.com API and didn’t have any issues.
Evo comes with two queens per side. If you are ever in a situation where you need three queens, it will not be able to continue the game. You can purchase an additional set of chess men on the Chessnut website.
The pieces are nice. The size of the board and pieces are a good compromise considering the additional board size with the screen.
Evo comes with additional felt bottoms for the chess men and felt bags to store the chess men.
I also purchased the optional carry bag, which is a great way to store the board. The bag has handles for carrying in the vertical or horizontal orientation and shoulder straps for carrying it like a backpack. The bag is a bit expensive for the quality, but it is a great companion to the EVO, so I am happy with the bag purchase as well.
Although Evo is sold on Amazon directly from Chessnut, the prices on Amazon will vary from the prices on the Chessnut website. There are times when Evo will be $100 less on the Chessnut website, which is unfortunate since Amazon makes it simple to click a few buttons and order the Evo. I bought the board from Amazon when the price on Amazon matched the price on the Chessnut website.
Alexander Kravitz –
Excellent chessboard, very convenient and easy to use, plays flawlessly against AI or real player over the network.
Franck –
great to play online but looking at a Chessboard instead of a screen. I wish there is an option for online game where you have a bigger timer as a bit small on the screen.
The pieces are a bit small, so I recommend to play on a same size board before buying. I drop the pieces often so I would probably prefer the Chestnut Pro.
Since you need to play your opponent move, it is not great to play in blitz as you waste time each move. More designed to play in 10min minimum (rapid).
Playing in high luminosity (like outside) does not work: you cannot distinguish the light unfortunately.
Overall very good product.
María Victoria Capurro –
Excelente producto
Luis P –
Excellent! I had high expectations for this board and so far, it has delivered. Pricey but, well worth the investment. I am a low rated player and I am learning so much with this board, highly recommend.
Amazon Customer –
As advertised, arrived in Chile faster than expected.
Recommended
Jaime Cajigas –
amazing product
Stefano Damele –
absolument exceptionnel, un pure plaisir, j’avais deja le dgt centaure qui était bien mais pour jouer en multi sur les plateformes ce chessnut evo est une tuerie, hyper qualitatif, super réactif en multi (me concernant sur chess com), j’avais peur des pièces en plastique mais elles ont la bonne taille et sont de très bonne qualité.
Jouer en carriere, contre des bots ou en multi c’est le jeu d’echec supreme.
Je précise qu’il est possible d’inverser l’écran (faire une rotation d’écran) comme pour n’importe qu’elle tablette android.
Vraiment hyper content.
A voir dans le temps si ils conservent les droits des plateformes et si cette version d’android ne peut pas être rendu obsolète un jour.
En tout cas bravo au concepteur, beau travail.
Merci également amazon pour la vitesse de livraison. toujours au top.
patricio silva rojas –
I YouTube’d this Chessnut Evo to death. It was probably more than I wanted to spend on a digital chessboard. But having recently started playing chess with my brother in Oz (I’m in the UK) on Chess.com with iPads, I thought it would really enhance the experience. It really did, fantastically.
I was so impressed that I ordered him one too, direct from Chessnut and got them to ship it to him. So we both ended up playing on Evo’s. It’s been great. I since ordered a set of the wooden pieces for myself and him. They are much nicer to use and look at. So everything was rosy, then yesterday it stopped working. The screen was blank and wouldn’t switch on. It was near fully charged but nothing. I tried the ‘reset’ button but still nothing. I was gutted. So reluctantly I’ve returned it to Amazon. My brother’s Evo is still working fine and he loves it. I’m back on the iPad 🙁
Having read the reviews of others I’ve realised that my box had no seal and no screen protector either.
I hope Chessnut sort out all these annoyances because it is a fantastic self- contained package.
UPDATE:
I originally gave the Evo a 3* rating, which was a bit harsh to be honest. At the time I was very disappointed that it just stopped working. All said and done it is a great chess computer and I miss it. So much so that I’ve decided to order another one to replace it.
I’ve also got an Air+ and a Pro with the premium pieces. But for having everything in one piece of equipment……. the Evo is the way to go IMHO.
Mind and treat yourself to the better wooden pieces though, the supplied plastic ones are a bit naff 🙁
FYI Amazon were great with their returning policy and method, do easy now.
Chess tech, the makers of the board, are really helpful too. All emails were answered and resolved within two days.
Hope this helps.
Simon M Bush –
Cumple con lo que dice. No es barato, pero es bueno y eso es justo lo que buscábamos.
juan bravo –
Arrivata in tempi inferiori a quanto dichiarato all’acquisto. Ottimo imballaggio. La scacchiera mantiene tutto quello che promette. Intuitiva. Sono davvero contento.
Amazon Customer –
producto 100 porciento recomendable, cumple con todas las expectativas, el despacho fue lo mas rápido que encontré se
demoro 4 dias en llegar a mi pais y ciudad fue muy rápido, el servicio a cliente es muy bueno respondiendo a mis dudas.
la parte del tablet es un poco imprecisa, cuando estoy en lichess o alguna otra plataforma, pero no es mucho se puede solucionar. en caso de perder alguna pieza eso si hay ,que comprar el juego completo. me encanto el producto.
Luis P –
The box seals arrived broken, the pieces were dirty and there were ants inside.
It was a gift I can no longer give