Square Off Pro driver for Windows

Using Gerhard Kalab's excellent work (Chess Dojo app) I have now released the first version of my Square Off Pro driver:

https://goneill.co.nz/chess.php#squareoff

This will run in Arena, LucasChess and Shredder in Windows (version 10 or later), but not currently in Linux. I have sent it to Lucas for inclusion in LucasChess so I'm sure the next version (2.01b or 2.02 or...) will include it.

It works slightly differently to my other drivers:

• You have to press OK on the New Game/Position screen before setting up the board
• Replacing pieces on take backs of capture moves is a bit different
• You must start a normal game on the board after first turning on its power before you can set up a custom position
  
  

Please read the manual for more details.

Let me know how it goes. Thanks!
Graham

Thanks to Lars (http://www.solanosoft.com/index.php?page=bearchess) I have been able to fix the problem with going straight to a custom position after turning on the board. So that issue no longer exists and I have updated to version 1.1

Graham

Glad to see that you made this driver.  Will have to try it out on Lucas with my new board.

I forgot to post an update here! The driver can now also be used in Fritz and ChessBase provided you have the 64 bit versions (Fritz 15 and ChessBase 13 onwards). Of course you also need a PC that supports Bluetooth to connect to the SOP.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like my dell laptop supports BTLE.  Bummer.

I use a TPLink USB BT adapter on my desktop and that works fine. Either the UB400 or UB500 is OK.

I found another laptop that does have BTLE.  I installed all of the MS resdistributable and SOP drivers, both 86 and 64. 

Fritz 15:  I clicked on Fritz 15, clicked the DGT board checkbox, and your driver window came up.  It said "searching" for about 5 seconds then Fritz shut down.  I tried it twice. 

Arena: Clicked on DGT and your driver window came up.  It stays on "searching for board" -- it's been about 5 minutes now.

So I think it's either the driver or maybe the BT on that laptop.  I'll order the TPLink to see if it is more successful.

Another thing you can try is to search for the board using the BLE tab on my ComPorts program to see if that finds the board.

Hello everyone!

I have tried the driver and it works, the connection with the PC via bluetooth

Graham. I installed your SquarePro driver on a Windows 10 system and it worked well. THen I installed it on a Windows 11 system and it worked great. I purchased a new Windows 11 system and I am getting an error accessing the Bluetooth LE. I cannot find anything on the net telling me why I cannot access the the Bluetooth LE. I did see 4 generic LE and a Microsoft LE.

Any thoughts about what I should try would be appreciated.

mike

Hi Mike,

There shouldn't be any issues with Win11. Did you install the Visual C++ library required? Does my ComPorts program (at the bottom of my web page) see the board on BLE?

Graham

Is this compatible with Mac?

Hello, thank you very much for the drivers, they have worked for me for Chessbase 16. I would like to know if it is possible to use them to play in Lichess or ChessCom from the PC?