Demonstration board

Manfred Zucker next to a demonstration board. The stones stand on ledges that are under each row.

The demonstration board , also demonstration chessboard , is an oversized chessboard that is hung or set up on the wall , in which usually magnetically attached chess pieces in the form of figure symbols ( figurines ) are used. It is usually 80 × 80 centimeters in size and is used to present chess positions to a larger audience.

The demonstration board was invented by Johann Jacob Löwenthal in the 19th century. The first demonstrable time it was used during the 1886 World Championship match between Steinitz and Zukertort in the United States.

Demonstration boards are often used for group training and lectures. During larger chess tournaments they can be used to show the current games to a larger audience. Electronic chessboards have been used increasingly for this purpose since the 1990s. While with the conventional demonstration boards helpers transmit the moves of the current game by hand, with modern electronic ones, which are often projected onto a screen via a wall projector, this is done computer-controlled with the help of sensors on the fields of the players' chessboard.

Individual proof

1. ^ Theo Schuster : Chess Lexicon . Page 50. Ullstein non-fiction book, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1992.

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