If it went to play classical on a real board you can always try a OTB tournament. it’s an added level of intensity. Try it sometime.
Using a real board when playing online.
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Really lol. In think we were just trolled.
If it went to play classical on a real board you can always try a OTB tournament. it’s an added level of intensity. Try it sometime.
If it went to play classical on a real board you can always try a OTB tournament. it’s an added level of intensity. Try it sometime.
COVID complicates it right now of course.
I use a board with every game I play and I also write the moves down on hard copy. I can more easily explore my possibilities and explore my opponent's reaction. I seldom go beyond a few moves deep.
Nov 2, 2021
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CooloutAC wrote:
JohnnyRooker wrote:
I’ve been using the Square Off Pro board over the last couple of days. Tournament sized. Board + smartphone = exactly what OP was looking for. It’s not one of Square Off’s goofy self-moving boards. There are LEDs in the board that light up and tell you your opponents move. You make the move, then your move. Rinse/repeat. It works great on chess.com and Lichess as well as their own chess server with Square Off players only.
I saw a demo of that board but it seems pretty flaky. The person had trouble registering some moves and had to press or replace the piece on the square a couple times. Doesn't seem to always roll out flat. I have the DGT centaur board and that thing works perfectly and effortlessly. The pieces are weighted but feel pretty cheap on the bottom. The only problem is it doesn't work online lol. The Pegasus seems to be similar but smaller, I'm still curious to see how it plays.
In the interest of transparency, I played a bunch on the Square Off Pro tonight and found a couple of hiccups. First, with Lichess only, sometimes it’ll match me with someone and then the board will disconnect and the app will minimize on my iPad. I try to reconnect the game and the same thing will occur again and again until the game aborts. Then I can try matchmaking again . And then sometimes it works fine. Second, it’ll find and play games perfectly on chess.com. However, twice in three days I’ve finished a game and then couldn’t create an unrated game because I’ve been flagged for poor sportsmanship and need to play more rated games before it’ll let me do unrated again. I’ve been a member here for more than ten years and haven’t been flagged for poor sportsmanship ever. I don’t trash talk and usually always say hi and good game. I think it’s some sort of bug somewhere in the interface between Square Off and Chess.com causing it.
This all seems terribly complicated. Once upon a time, I considered such appurtenances but bypassed them, mostly because of cost. I am cheap. I have plenty of miniatures I use. I am retired now so it is not a problem.
Dec 24, 2022
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Trying to move on the real board while playing online has mostly just messed me up. I like the idea but not working for me.
Dec 24, 2022
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Glad you dug up this grave that's been exhumed before. I've been thinking about this lately. I just don't see any point in making my opponent's moves for them. Especially when the game gets fast at the end when you're running out of time. Also a lot of players really object to you using a board. So out of respect for them I say just dispense with it. The only exception I would make would be for a daily game.
I was thinking of getting the new DGT Pegasus Board scheduled for release in a month. Its designed specifically for both sites and has a special phone app to bluetooth pair. First of its kind. As a new palyer to chess I'd like it Just for the aesthetics of playing against a person with real pieces and its easy to use for a noob like me since its lights up the squares. The only issue I have is that not that many people play classical. In fact on the other site I rarely can get a 30 min match at all, in fact not at all in off peak hours i've literally at in qeue for hours and my rating is pretty average. So i'm having second thoughts now. I would still like to see it an action and hope someone does a demonstration eventually. For you otb tourney players it might not be ideal because its way smaller then tournament size.
You truly wish to play classical time controls? Who is the guy using your identity on a different chess.com forum ranting about classical being boring, a plot by hidebound FIDE oldsters to force the young into an inferior variety of chess, and the reason that society hates chess?