Meet the East German Chess Computer That Outsmarted Me!

In this episode I bought an old chess computer on eBay. It is the "Chess-Master" from Radiophon. It is from East Germany (DDR) and in my opinion it was really high tech back then!

This device is decades old! It is from the middle of the 80s. The chess computer can detect your moves with its sensor fields and is really high quality!

Unfortunately it is not turning on. Can we fix it? Let's find out...

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