it would be nice to have the boards as I/O device. i am not so sure if it makes much sense to let them play on FICS or playchess
but the other way arround is nice. to connect them with rybka and to play a serious blitz game with a wooden board against rybka without the need to look on a 2D chess board and a mouse, but a real board instead.
thank you in forward !
if you need any information about one of the modules available for the machine, just ask me about.
thanks.
thorsten
I am investigating little time in the moment with this saitek dedicated chess computer because a week ago i bought a SPARC module in the net.
mclane wrote:what we would need would be a device driver that
is a little UCI without a chess program. or maybe a chess program that is also capable to send signals to the UCI device.
Of course, the SD as a chessboard is not as pleasant as a Saitek wooden board !
The main usage I was when I wrote this : record games played by the SD from a PC user interface and it was very practical for a few games I played between the SD and the Citrine :I just had to move pieces on the Citrine as well as to play its games under Fritz and the SD received the moves and answered directly in Fritz's interface.
I don't think that doing the same thing for the Saitek board would be very complicated, I programmed the OSA interface for CEBoard on Pocket PC and it is very simple to use.
good idea. thank you. i will try out the STAR DIAMOND UCI stuff, although the star diamond is a PRESS SENSORY board.
of course the Leonardo/Galileo/Renaissance would make more fun because you could play BLITZ games on them.
Imagine how many people have a either leonardo/galileo or renaissance at home without really using them connected to the PC. we/you could change that. the star diamond is rather rare and the citrine even more rare.
how do i have to handle the device. just plug in, install the uci and make moves ?
is there kind of read.me with instructions ?
Hello. I have a Saitek Galileo chess board that I bought new in 1989. I have recently got back into chess and I have a copy of the HIARCS chess explorer on my mac. I have been looking for a way to link the Galileo to HCE. I have made a serial cable to connect them together and I can see the Galileo's output on a terminal on the mac. Internet searches have located a number of approaches to this task, including this old forum post. The best solution I found was Achim Pietig's OSA for Arena programs. https://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/i ... _for_ArenaThese use the UCI protocol on Windows machines to connect to the Arena GUI. Unfortunately these don't work on my mac, even under wine and I'm not interested in a dual boot solution. I just want to link to HCE. I am now writing my own code in C to run on the mac. This takes the form of a "dummy " UCI engine, as described by mclane in this forum thread. It doesn't seem to be too difficult. work is progressing well and I hope to have it completed soon. I'm interested in people's comments about this. Is theere already a suitable solution for this that I have not found? Are others interested in having such a dummy engine? Regards, Dave.
Thanks Bryan. This is the type of thing I am talking about, but they are for Millenium or Certabo chessboards and they seem to be Windows programs. Dave
