Questions about possible ways for dragon-human players match

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Uri Blass
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Questions about possible ways for dragon-human players match

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1)There are players who prefer the match to be OTB and not by the mouse and I want to know if it may be possible to do it automatically without a human operator.

The idea is that the komodo-dragon team send their move by the internet to the chess board and the chess board make the move on the board and the board also let the human opponent to reply with a move on the board when the board can send the move that the human made on the board to the computer opponent so the computer opponent can get the move of the human(again with no human operator that need to get it and make the move).

In theory it should be possible but I am not sure if practically it is possible and if possible what is the price of a special chess board that can do it.

2)I read that it is possible by chess.com to make 5 games at the same time but the question is if the match has to be played in chess.com
One chess club that may organize the event(I still has no final date and final place for the event but a lot of players showed an interest so I believe that a match is going to happen) suggested to use the lichess site for games.
lkaufman
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Re: Questions about possible ways for dragon-human players match

Post by lkaufman »

Uri Blass wrote: Fri Feb 11, 2022 8:44 am 1)There are players who prefer the match to be OTB and not by the mouse and I want to know if it may be possible to do it automatically without a human operator.

The idea is that the komodo-dragon team send their move by the internet to the chess board and the chess board make the move on the board and the board also let the human opponent to reply with a move on the board when the board can send the move that the human made on the board to the computer opponent so the computer opponent can get the move of the human(again with no human operator that need to get it and make the move).

In theory it should be possible but I am not sure if practically it is possible and if possible what is the price of a special chess board that can do it.

2)I read that it is possible by chess.com to make 5 games at the same time but the question is if the match has to be played in chess.com
One chess club that may organize the event(I still has no final date and final place for the event but a lot of players showed an interest so I believe that a match is going to happen) suggested to use the lichess site for games.
I have the special software needed for running multiple games at once on chess.com, but I have never tried to have my computer play automatically on LiChess and I don't know if LiChess is set up in a way to allow multiple games at once, especially odds games. I'm not saying it's impossible, I just don't know.
Komodo rules!