Electronic boards that work here?

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Avatar of ogbumblingpatzer

I'm finding a lot of semi-conflicting information, so I am asking directly: which electronic boards work with chess.com? I'm considering the Certable, Millennium, Millennium Exclusive, SquareOff, and the many DGT boards?

Avatar of golombek101

So I have Square Off, regular mechanical malfunctions with pieces moving arbitrarily around the board! I contacted the Help desk with a robotic reply , still unresolved..

Avatar of ogbumblingpatzer

I've heard multiple complaints about mechanical problems with the Square Off and, honestly, it's not my first choice anyway. The others each have their appeal: the Certabo is versatile, but expensive, the Millennium boards are nice, particularly the Exclusive with the piece sensors, but it's unclear if they work here and only maybe on lichess, the DGT seems overpriced for what you get and again the reliability of the connectivity here and/or on lichess is unclear.

Avatar of Martin_Stahl
ogbumblingpatzer wrote:

I'm finding a lot of semi-conflicting information, so I am asking directly: which electronic boards work with chess.com? I'm considering the Certable, Millennium, Millennium Exclusive, SquareOff, and the many DGT boards?

 

Pretty sure just Square-Off, through their app, and DGT: https://support.chess.com/article/1257-how-can-i-play-with-a-dgt-board

Avatar of ogbumblingpatzer

Well, multiple people say they use Certabo, but it perhaps isn't officially certified. Thanks for the info!

Avatar of Martin_Stahl

I haven't seen anything anywhere and here the only way I think it could work is if they might be using some kind of site overlay code to receive and transmit moves. To my knowledge, the site doesn't have an open API for making moves other than what was written for Square-off and DGT.

Avatar of ogbumblingpatzer

Yes, Certabo's site says it works and a few users here have used it (see https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/certabo-electronic-chess-board?page=5#comment-46229384) but it uses its own intermediary software. I hope chess.com chooses to work with Certabo at some point (they are integrated with lichess via its API).

Avatar of OutOfCheese

You may wanna take a look at MIko. That's no endorsement whatsoever because I don't know that thing, it just ticks all your boxes.