Online Scoreboard App for OTB play

Playing Economy Chess on the board just got 86%* easier! 

Ted Elrick, aka Snappleman on Boardgamegeek.com, wrote an awesome application that keeps track of basicly everything that happens in Economy Chess. All you have to do is tell the software what you just did on the chessboard.

+ a chessclock with increment 
+ the application works on any browser and also works on smartphones
+ internetconnection is needed to open the page, after that no connection is needed to use the application
+ resize the scoreboard to your own will (ctrl + mousescroll)
+ all variants of the v2 software can be chosen 

At this time only the standard Economy Chess variant can be played. Other options will soon be implemented.
 

Big thanks again to Ted for making this application, it runs great!

The scoreboard application can be used here: http://c3g.no-ip.org/EcoChess

* proven in several clinical studies

Looks good and simple. I like it!  I'll have to disappoint a little though since there are a few special cases it doesn't support.

1. When capturing en passant you might not gain control of an opponents square (it might have been neutral or you might have controlled that square already).
2. When castling there could be a very rare case where you conquer 2 of your opponents squares in one move.
3. When buying pieces you might gain control of one or more squares your opponent controlled.

Having said this it's just some rare scenarios it doesn't support and there could be gentlemans agreement to ignore these small errors if they occur. I don't want to change the simple way it works now, but maybe there could be some "+" and "-" buttons you can use to adjust errors and fix manually if any of these cases should occur. Perhaps they should be showed only when pausing the game (to avoid confusion, you generally shouldn't need to touch them) and I'm thinking it should excist to all numbers except seconds, namely "minutes", "Pieces", "Squares", "Income", "Savings" and one for each of the remaining pieces. Talking about the pause button there seem to be a tiny bug, your time gets increased by the increment when your pausing the game. Other than these small errors it look great.

Good points Martin! I'll message Ted about it.

1) true, this is an issue that can occur. And it's a bit difficult because after en passent you can end on
- a square you already own
- a neutral square
- an enemy square
The +/- buttons would solve this indeed. Or a checkbox with "en passent" + button. The button would then do it's thing and the en passent checkbox would do 'enemy pieces' - 1 = 'enemy pieces'

2) I have thought about that one. That situation is, imo, so extremely rare that it has the least priority.

3) This is not a mistake, as you can't buy pieces on squares you do not own. So when buying pieces it's not possible to capture a square.

Thanks for you thorough feedback! Good eye for detail!