e-board demo suggestions

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mgx9600

I made an electronic chessboard (actually several) and I want to make a video demo of it.  The board supports natural movements like the DGT eboard but uses cheap plastic chessmen.

 

The goal of my  board is for USCF OTB tournament use (record PGN and live broadcast), so I did not work on online chess interface.

 

Below is my demo plan:

 

(demonstrate different movement methods slide/pickup/change mind while maintaining touch) 
1. d4 e5

2. d5 e4

 

(demonstrate knockover by knocking  over the board and resetting to prior position)

 

(demonstrate different capturing methods)
3. f4 exf3ep (move, capture)
4. Qd4 c5
5. dxc6ep (remove both, place) Ne7
6. Qxg7 (move adjacent, remove) Bxg7 (capture, move)

 

(demonstrate promotion)
7. cxb7 fxg2
8. bxc8=Q fxh1=Q->N
9. Qxb8 Ng3 (note promotion change)

 

(demonstrate castling)
10. Nc3 OO (king first)
11. Be3 Rxb8
12. OOO (rook first)

 

(explain illegal moves are allowed unless players notice)
(demonstrate auto illegal move undo)
13. Nxe2+ (Rxd7, this is illegal, black points out check and white undo) Bxe2

 

I think the above covers most of the features of the board in the least amount of moves.  I welcome your suggestions.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

 

mgx9600

Here's a pic of one of the boards I'll demo.

 

This one is an induction underlay board.  The top board can be anything except metal (so a wooden chessboard works too).  I would have posted pics earlier except, as you can see, the board takes up my entire desk so I normally don't have it out (plus lots of wires to mess with).  I've set everything up yesterday, and came up with the demo plan.

 

I'll demo it against the DGT board next to it.  There are some things my board can do that the DGT cannot, for example, this DGT board is bluetooth version and scans at 10Hz, which can miss very fast moves; my induction board (which is the slowest) can easily scan at 20Hz.  Of course, I can promote multiple queens at $1 each, while the DGT board queens are expensive to buy.  Oh what else?  Yes, my board allows better tournament rules support: in DGT if you make illegal move the PGN is broken up, my board has the intelligence to automatically resolve many beginner type mistakes IFF the players notice (it was intended for young scholastic players)

 

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mgx9600

What I'd really like is for you to suggest movement patterns that you like to use.

 

For example, I normally perform capture by either (1) remove captured piece then move my piece or (2) move my piece next to captured piece then remove captured piece.  While playing against somebody, he performed a capture by removing both pieces at the same time; so my board learned that sequence.

 

If you have any normal way for doing things on the chessboard that is USCF tournament legal; I'd like to hear it.

mgx9600

Even if it is USCF illegal but popular, I'd like to hear it.  for example, I used to just support castling by moving the king first, but after playing people, I now allow moving the rook first too (asuming the person has said castle).

 

Also, the board used to not support piece adjustments, but during normal play, we found that it is a definciency so it's been added.  Even if I can't support a deficiency, I might be able to make it so that it won't break anything.

 

mgx9600

So, I made a few e-boards.

 

The goal was to produce a version of the DGT e-board suitable for young scholastic players (they are rough on the pieces and board), so I want to use cheap plastic pieces.

 

The demo board can store 1000 plys with turn-time information or 2000 plys without, assuming each game is about 100plys, that means 10 to 20 games before needing to download to computer.

 

My first attempt at picture-in-picture didn't work too well, so just play both videos concurrently on your screen.  Start the second video at 4:31 of the first.

 

https://youtu.be/0Y8NTp1wk2s

https://youtu.be/5INOclybRwA