DGT Bluetooth E-Board - Proper Non-Tournament Usage

Hi all,

  Apologies in advance for this long-winded email, but I want to get the most out of my DGT e-board (which I love) and need to troubleshoot/learn.

  I use this board solely for online play or playing OTB with a friend. There's no tournament usage for this board, and part of my confusion comes from the fact that the LiveChess manual almost exclusively focuses on multi-board, tournament usage.

  Anyway, connecting to my e-board is no problem, and I can see a bunch of previous games I've played through the LiveChess software. Awesome. However, I played a bunch of games with a friend of mine and connected a DGT 3000 clock. I connected and checked the first game after we finished, and noticed that it appeared in the history (after moving the pieces back to the starting position), which was cool, so I then put the computer away, played a bunch more, but none of the other games showed up in LiveChess after at all. A couple games probably had a takeback or an accidental illegal starting position, but we played like 12-13 games and only the first appeared in the history.

  So, my questions about playing OTB, non-tournament, with the e-board include the following:

1. With (and without) the clock, what is the proper way (or proper ways) to start AND stop/end the game on the board so that LiveChess recognizes the end result and so it is properly recorded in the board's history? This can include, checkmate, resignation, time running out, draw, etc.

2. What can prevent the board from recording any parts of the game? I would understand that if on, say, move 15 (or whatever) someone made a takeback or an illegal move the board might stop recording the rest of the game, but would it invalidate the entire game and cause it not to persist even the first part of the game?

  I've verified today that the board still works by resetting the starting position (without a clock), making a few moves, and resetting the positions again; LiveChess recorded that "game" perfectly fine.

  I'm totally willing to accept that I screwed something up and made some incorrect assumptions, but the LiveChess/DGT manuals don't exactly help with troubleshooting these situations (never mind in a non-tournament setting).

  Thanks in advance for anyone who might be able to help answer these questions and/or point me in the direction of some helpful material (just to be clear, yes, I've read both the DGT e-board manual and the latest LiveChess manual).

@DaysofBlunder You'll find a DGT-educated audience for this question at

  https://www.chess.com/club/dgt-pegasus-centaur-e-board-users

Will send you invite

Thank you! I'll re-post there.