Solution for DGT board on chess.com

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GeorgeGoodnight
androp wrote:
CFossa wrote:

All,

If you've been trying to use a DGT board with chess.com for the past couple of years, it has been frustrating at best. Many of us gave up and only used DGT with Lichess.

I recently received an email from Millennium Chess advertising a new Chrome extension that works with their boards. It is called Chessconect. I checked it out, and it also has support for DGT!

https://computerchess.com/en/best-practice/Discover-Chessconnect-for-a-new-online-chess-experience

I just tried this with my DGT board and it worked great! I've only played two games against the bots (something that was not possible before on chess.com), and one live unrated game. But so far it has worked flawlessly!

This may be the solution DGT owners have been waiting for to use their boards on chess.com!

Hope it works for you as well as it did for me.

p.s. I have nothing to do with this Chrome extension - just a happy user so far

Carl

Curious which DGT version you have? Chessconnect doesn't work with my USB mini version, however, I've ordered an upgrade kit for USB-C anyway, which should resolve the issue. More of a curiosity. Cheers

I got a message from Jörn, author of the extension, today stating he will be looking at supporting the usb mini boards in the future.

iamspoona

Hi Carl

I have a dumb question so you run DGT Live chess and Chess.com on Chrome with the Chessconnect extension?
I still cannot get my freakin sound to work. In particulr the announce moves will not work.

Any thoughts

Take Care Be Well

Gordon 
Melbourne Australia

iamspoona

CFossa

Hi Gordon,

You don't need DGT Live Chess. Just install the Chessconnect extension on Chrome. If you go into the Chessconnect settings, one of the dropdown boxes lets you select whether or not to announce moves.

Good luck!

BTW there is a large community of users on this thread -

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/chessconnect-a-chrome-extension-for-chessnut-air-and-chessnut-pro-smartboards