Chessnut Go/Air Vs. Chessup2 for learning

So, have you started playing with it yet? Howz the experience?

I like it and am glad I bought it. I've played a number of games with it, keeping both the board and my phone with the app running on a lap desk, which is a very comfortable arrangement.

I have run into two very minor anomalies, neither of which may ever be experienced by other players.

First, I sometimes work in an old long sleeve western style shirt that has metal snaps at the cuffs. I played a couple of games in which the board/app showed moves (adjacent to the pieces / moves I actually made) that I didn't make. In the middle of a game, there is no way to correct this, and at least once the opponent had already moved before I figured out what had happened. It's somewhat of a mystery, but I'm guessing somehow the interaction of the metal cuff snaps and the magnets played a joke on me! Of course, I started rolling up the sleeves, and now that where I live is a 24 hour steam bath, I'm not wearing the shirt anyway.

Second, once when castling, apparently I dragged the King over the Bishop square, causing the board / app to show that I had moved one square (kingside) over rather than castling. Now I'm careful to pull both King and Rook off straight back before replacing the pieces on their proper squares.

I haven't tried any other features of the app other than playing other humans on chess.com.

Also, it is true that the little lights in the squares indicating moves become invisible in bright sunlight, say, shining on the board through a window. But the solution involves simply moving out of the bright sunshine.

Last, unfortunately, the GO hasn't helped my calculation skills at all!

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Your setup sounds similar to the same reasons why I also decided to get a Chestnut GO.

I own the Chessnut Air+, and I use it to play all my live games on Chesscom and I love it.

But I sometimes I like to stretch-out on the couch and do Chesscom Puzzles. The Chessnut Go is perfect for that because it's small and I can set it up on my chest without having the pieces falling off.

I like chessup2, it has a very lightweight design and the lights can be adjusted to suit your preferences, also I believe it's cheaper and is soon to be compatible with Lichess.com and has checkers also. I like how you can also set up alternative board set-ups with the Board Editor, play with a timer against a fellow OTB opponent, and play bots even when you're offline and can't play Chess.com, etc. and there's a power outage (where I live there's a LOT of those) so I prefer it over my Chessnut