Have chess.com bugs in gameplay with DGT e-boards been fixed?

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jewelmind

Here's a discussion from this forum earlier in the year about playing games on chess.com using a DGT e-board:

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coccochess88 wrote:

Playing on Chess.Com 

On Chess.Com, you simply toggle the DGT button on the play area and fire away. A litle text message appears on the right-hand side which helps you out, letting you know if the board is connected, in sync, waiting for a move, etc. If you are so inclined, there's also an extension which will read out your opponent's moves from you in Danny's voice (with additional color commentary from Danny which are at once hilarious and also get quite old pretty quickly). Overall, I'd say it works... ok. Unlike the Lichess integration, the Chess.com one doesn't really handle edge cases all that gracefully: You have to be very intentional when castling, and if you make mistakes on the board you might need to occasionally use the computer to play moves until the board starts recognizing your moves again. It's not a deal breaker, and these issues only happen occasionally; however, having played many, many games that went totally flawlessly on Lichess, its hard not to be a bit disappointed. It's definitely a bit immersion breaking to need to go back to the computer, and given the contrast between the support in both sites, I sure hope chess.com would invest in making it more ironclad, because when it works, the experience is just awesome.

 

The old 'Live' board worked (for most people) and the 'Play' board doesn't work properly with castling or check (moving into/out of).  To call it an edge case is very generous of you wink.


Chess.com have been aware of the problems on 'Play' since last December .  They have also been given the information to recreate the problem and told how to fix it (there are a couple of small bugs in the sites JavaScript), which they still haven't done.

I can't even consider buying a DGT e-board unless I know this has been fixed, and you can use the e-board on chess.com as easily as on lichess. 

Can any DGT e-board owners tell us whether these bugs have now been fixed?

Schachmonkey
This maybe they’ll buy Lichess 😂
Schachmonkey
I meant chess.com 😊
ChessconnectDGTTest

As far as I can tell, the board is still pretty unusable on this platform.

The_Blue_Nightshade

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/site-feedback/wrong-wrong-wrong

looking for supporters

would like some

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