Chess for Android: Epic Electronic Chessboard Show-down

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abik
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Chess for Android: Epic Electronic Chessboard Show-down

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In this Epic Electronic Chessboard show-down video, I discuss all electronic chessboards supported by Chess for Android, featuring all major vendors, Certabo from Italy, Chessnut from China, DGT from the Netherlands, and Millennium from Germany.



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Re: Chess for Android: Epic Electronic Chessboard Show-down

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A man and his hobby :-)

Wow Aart. You have supperted so many chess boards, that looks like a business!
What seems like a fairy tale today may be reality tomorrow.
Here we have a fairy tale of the day after tomorrow....
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mclane wrote: Thu Jul 06, 2023 3:27 pm A man and his hobby :-)
Wow Aart. You have supperted so many chess boards, that looks like a business!
My wife is not too thrilled with the amount of boards I have collected so far ;-)
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Re: Chess for Android: Epic Electronic Chessboard Show-down

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Starting with v6.8, Chess for Android now also supports the Chessup electronic chessboard. Note that the protocol in this board differs from the typical protocol in the sense that most work is already done on the board itself (display moves, check valid moves, etc.). So, this was actually a bit more work than for the other boards, since I had to workaround the typical "phone drives it all" behavior. But it is working now, with some minor things still to be improved.

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