Chess for Android Move Coach on E-Boards

[abik]

I am very enthusiastic about all the new beautiful e-boards with LEDs. Inspired, I just implemented the existing "move coach" of Chess for Android for e-boards. Here is a brief video showing the new feature. I plan to release this soon to Google Play, but please let me know what you think!

[abik]

Here is picture of the feature in action.

[PeterO]

Hi Aart,

nice feature. Do you have new plans for DGT-Pegasus/Chess for Androids?

Peter

[abik]

Do you have new plans for DGT-Pegasus/Chess for Android?

If I get permission to use their API in my own implementation, I am definitely interested. You can keep an eye on my twitter account for day-to-day progress, although I will of course post back here in this forum when there is a new release to announce!

[adams161]

I am very enthusiastic about all the new beautiful e-boards with LEDs. Inspired, I just implemented the existing "move coach" of Chess for Android for e-boards. Here is a brief video showing the new feature. I plan to release this soon to Google Play, but please let me know what you think!

That was pretty nice to see the app have that level of control of the UI of the board. An e-board like that one, what would it cost? It is open protocol?

Do you know roughly how big e-boards are in the digital boards market place?

Any other recommendations for a first board? Also if this is sort of high end price would be interested in.a recommendation for a high and low end if you had one.

[LocutusOfPenguin]

The price range for electronic boards goes from 180€ (Presale pice for Millennium e-One) or 249€ for a DGT Pegasus to 775€ for a Millennium Supreme Tournament 55 or around this for a DGT wood board (depending on your choice of wood, pieces types).

There is also Certabo boards with an advantage of being able to play other board games too (like othello).
On low price segment i would recommend you an e-One, but please take into account, its release date is end of jan.
If y dont want to wait, y might buy the dgt pegasus , but i know why i recommend something else;-)

Wood boards are really nice, but y need to spend alot more money. If y need LEDs here, y cant buy a wood DGT one (only Millennium offers leds).

All boards will work. For e-One it works already with Aart's SW, and prob. after DGT releases their new api to him too.
The boards already on market for some time, arent a problem at all...Aart did a great job.

You see, the electronic chess board market is in flow. There are alot of choices for the customer, which is great.

Yours, Jürgen

[adams161]

I am very enthusiastic about all the new beautiful e-boards with LEDs. Inspired, I just implemented the existing "move coach" of Chess for Android for e-boards. Here is a brief video showing the new feature. I plan to release this soon to Google Play, but please let me know what you think!

Aart, my diamond chess has a few news items on FICS and the release of chess for android is still a news item on FICS. I want to ask the head admin, mattuc, to do another for wood board support on FICS specifically if it's true as i think that that board could be made to play on FICS since the app connects to FICS. It seems nobody i talk to on FICS seems to realize there is a way to play with such boards on FICS. But i've never owned such a board yet and need to know for sure what i would be telling mattuc factually if any catches. Mattuc has generally been interested in promoting useful news to members and i've exchanged many emails with him and generally is responsive when he learns things tech wise useful to share that he may not have known himself being on few devices. I was going to suggest including the video too.

I would also encourage you to get timeseal on FICS for lag compensation which is i now understand open source on fics and simply a small class i believe in java that inherits from the socket and does not change your code. it just adds timestamp to sent data. there is also a c implementation i'm using in diamond chess that you could use if you want with the JNI. And you can look at both codes and write your own as long as you grab the authentication key from one. Kind of a strange security but its just internet chess lag.

[Chessqueen]

Here is picture of the feature in action.

How much is that beautiful E board, that you are showing. Does it cost less than $300.00 US Dollars ?

[abik]

How much is that beautiful E board, that you are showing. Does it cost less than $300.00 US Dollars [/size]?

The board shown in the picture is the Supreme Millennium Tournament 55 eboard, which is, as stated above too, listed for around 799 euros currently. The LEDs are nicely worked into the wood and do not distract from the game at all (both when moving pieces, since you cannot feel them, as well as visually, since you hardly notice them when not lit).

[abik]

I want to ask the head admin, mattuc, to do another for wood board support on FICS specifically if it's true as i think that that board could be made to play on FICS since the app connects to FICS. It seems nobody i talk to on FICS seems to realize there is a way to play with such boards on FICS.

Absolutely! One of the reasons I actually added ICS/FICS support to Chess for Android was exactly because of users' request to be able to play with an online service using a real wooden chessboard! Please feel free to point them to one of my instructional videos on the topic as well. Perhaps I should make a separate one for just connecting to the servers using an eboard.