The boardWhile the board is in general really nicely made it seems their quality acceptance is -in my opinion- not heigh enough. As you can see in the pictures I added, they fixed a gap with some epoxy glue next to the left bottom C1 square led. There are other imperfections on the board but this is the biggest one. Please note that I'm a very detail orientated person and I would find imperfections on anything. That is also the reason I won't return it as I expect to find other "issues" on a replacement board as well. It just bothers me a bit that they knew about it and fixed it. There is also a shiny spot around the whole C3 area as they probably polished some epoxy glue away. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a good picture of this. To be fair, the macro picture makes it a lot worse than it looks in reality. That's why I added several pictures of the same area with different zoom levels to give a complete picture (no pun intended). The red LEDs shine bright and look good and are also completely flush to the board. The wood colors are very much to my taste. Not sure what they used to seal the wood. Except for the shiny area around C3 on my board, the coating looks a little matt but still reflective. Really good and well done.SoftwareThe piece recognition and software works really well and I love how intuative it all operates. The design of the GUI is good and no need to keep the manual around as it is all very clear. The Lang program plays good and fun.PiecesThe pieces themselves look of a good enough quality. Not much else to say, it's good.Computer unitNow, the computer itself is quite underwhelming. As you can see in the pictures they went with a very cheap plastic and the gold aluminum plates are in fact cheap stickers that are already letting loose just out of the box and showing rough edges. Why they didn't opt to go with anodized aluminum plates is hard to understand. I much rather would like to have seen a good quality plastic enclosure without the aluminum stickers if cost was an issue.I still give it four stars as it does work really well and the board, except for some imperfections, looks really well. I also appreciate that Millennium brought this to the market as it is a very niche market.Other optionsChoices are very limited in chess computers especially for the wooden ones. DGT makes a very high quality board, but that also costs almost six times more than the Millennium one. They have cheaper USB boards, but that doesn't have LEDs. There is also a cheaper board from India and made of wood that even moves the pieces by itself called the "Square Off". But, it makes a lot of noise when moving, no LEDs, no piece recognition, no auto sensory (you need to press the squares to indicate your moves) and seems to suffer from mechanical quality issues. Then there is the Italian made Certabo which is harder to find, not sure, but it looks like you can only buy them on their own website. Price wise (after combining a set as Certabo sells the board, pieces and computer (Raspberry Pi 3) separately) you would get around the same price as the Millennium, but I didn't like the wood type/color they offer. The last one is the Swiss made Grandmaster from Pewatronic with build in Raspberry. Good looking board, but no piece recognition and three times the price of the Millennium. These are all other new wooden chess computers I could find. For me, the Millennium was the best choice.