Had a problem a couple of days ago. I set up the board in preparation to play a rated G60/30 as black. I received the invite using the Chessnut Air software on a laptop interfaced to CC. The board lit up the moves, but would not register that I was moving the pieces. It just kept lighting up the appropriate squares. I wound up playing on the laptop. I figure I needed to reset somehow, but I don't know if I could have done that and kept playing in the game, or whether we would have had to start over. Any similar experiences? It would be useful to comprehensively test the board and have procedures for what to do in different circumstances. Lack o documentation is my biggest complaint about the Air. Otherwise, still love this eBoard.
Chessnut Air Review
Had a problem a couple of days ago. I set up the board in preparation to play a rated G60/30 as black. I received the invite using the Chessnut Air software on a laptop interfaced to CC. The board lit up the moves, but would not register that I was moving the pieces. It just kept lighting up the appropriate squares. I wound up playing on the laptop. I figure I needed to reset somehow, but I don't know if I could have done that and kept playing in the game, or whether we would have had to start over. Any similar experiences? It would be useful to comprehensively test the board and have procedures for what to do in different circumstances. Lack o documentation is my biggest complaint about the Air. Otherwise, still love this eBoard.
Was all the lights lit up? It may be backwards I had trouble with it at first. Gonna be the right pieces on the right side, also all the pieces in right square & no touching too much
Nope. Just the lights to move. E.g. white went e4, so e2 and e4 lit. I moved the pawn, but the lights stayed lit. Then i moved e5. Moving on the board did nothing, but moving via the laptop lit e7 and e5. End result at this point, 4 lit squares. I have seen the problem you describe. But that wasn't it. I've seen king and queen reversal or a very offset piece also cause problems. Not the case this time. I guess my real question is, is this situation potentially recoverable, or do I need to "reboot" and start a new game. I haven't tried repeating the error yet.
Yes reboot/reset and see if that works. There's a facebook group for Chessnut Air backers, maybe you can post there.
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Does the chessnut air connect to chess.com and if yes how do you connect it.
There is a video from the Lifesparring channel on youtube.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=shVhlz3ZmrU
It works great with the Bots. I think it's the only eboard with this feature. But I noticed there is still a problem with en passant moves. The board don't recognize them. You have to play the capture in the app.
Any input on using this board to play OTB if space limits a full size board being used or one isn’t available?
For any Macbook/Ipad users, any issues importing games from the board to these devises? I have an early 2015 macbook air and want to make sure this will work for these devises.
I ordered a chessnut air and received the board today! It works very well on iPhone with the chessnut app.
Just sent this feedback to Chessnut about the piece sliding issue. Will be interesting to hear if they think the solutions I'm suggesting are feasible:
Hi, been playing some games, and I’d like to make another suggestion for the next firmware update.
The piece sliding issue is of course well-known, with most or all of the eboards registering intermediate squares as the move instead of the final square. I’ve been having problems with it particularly when moving pawns 2 squares on the Air, with one square registering. I’m 63, been playing since I was 8 and I have a habit of sliding pieces that will be almost impossible to shake! I want to think about the game, not “lift and drop, lift and drop”.
It occurs to me that the issue is perhaps that you have set the board to register moves instantly, to allow fast game play. How about giving us that choice? Would it be possible to introduce a slider for move recognition speed, where we set in increments, say of 0.1 seconds between 0 and 1 second, the pause the board introduces between a piece leaving a square and being noticed on a new one? That would allow those of us, like myself, who don’t play blitz and bullet, to happily slide, and the blitz and bullet players who are good at “lift and drop” to keep things instant. Or if a slider is too hard, just a switch between “speed optimised” and “sliding optimised” with the latter having a set delay of half a second or so, which you would of course experiment with.
Or perhaps it would be better to use a setting that is about length of time on a square, rather than length of time to complete a move, so the board doesn't register a move until a piece has been sitting on a square for a while, whether a slider set time or an optimisation switch. This might be better to allow us to slide from one end of the board to the other!
Just use the White Pawn App. There is a setting called Limbo Moves wich allows 0.1 sec settings up to 5 seconds.
Just use the White Pawn App. There is a setting called Limbo Moves wich allows 0.1 sec settings up to 5 seconds.
Is LImbo Moves active for rated games? Seems like it would have the potential, with a delay of up to 5 seconds, to be misused for hidden takebacks of moves? Now I think about it, I was suggesting a delay of up to a second, and perhaps even that is too long if we're preventing hidden takebacks, and we'd want to limit it to .5 or even .3 of a second in rated games.
That sounds pretty good. The main problem for me being that WhitePawn does not support chess.com, where I prefer to play my games, as I like the Game Review and Insight functions. If any app developer, including of course Chessnut themselves, comes up with a similar system to WhitePawn I will be in slider heaven.
My chessnut just arrived about an hour ago. I've picked up the pieces when moving them, I've slid them too. I've been sloppy about putting them in the middle of the squares, and in all of these scenarios there hasn't been the least bit of a problem with recognition. I haven't measured anything in milliseconds, but recognition seems to be pretty much immediate for me.
I haven't tried en passant yet, so I'm not sure how that's going to be.
Playing the bots here on chess.com works great too.
The only thing I think they could do better would be the led lighting. I have to be paying attention and looking very closely to notice what my opponent wants to move. This said, I'm playing in the middle of the day and it's sunny out.
The pieces look pretty good for plastic, are weighted nicely and feel good when moving them - even with my huge fingers I'm not having any problems. I was worried that I would be disappointed with the size (my 2nd choice was the squareoff pro), but it's quite reasonable. And it looks good enough that I'm going to have it out on display when I'm not playing (which I wouldn't have done with the squareoff, just because of the look).
Setup took about 2 minutes, both here on chess.com and lichess.
Now the only thing I need to do is get (much) better at chess.........
So the manual says I can only connect through Windows via USB. Is this true or is there an update or driver I gotta download? I read about downloading C++ package for programs like Shredder and others from the other pages here but I just wanna connect via Bluetooth and play Chess.com on PC.
Also I received mine with one broken LED light but I contacted customer support, so just a heads up for any potential buyers to check all the lights once you get yours.
1) quality of the board and chessmen is very nice
2) no issues connecting my phone via blue tooth
3) the only imperfection I got is that 2 squares LED dimly flicker when empty and a piece is standing next to it. This is visible only when you are setting up a custom board. Lets say you have a knight on g1 (light is on on g1) and remove rook from h1: the h1 light should be off but instead it is flickering dimly until I remove the knight from g1. But during the game all is working perfectly in terms of lights.