Simple Board Setup for games

I don’t think this feature is available or how many people will agree, but for those who don’t have a chessboard for experimenting and making calculations while in game, if there were a way to have a simultaneous interface board setup without engine help might be kind of good for newer players. 

It might be a checkbox that both parties would either acknowledge or have to agree to and only unrated games. Maybe 1200 and above there wouldn’t be that option. If you’re playing a longer game, who’s to say one, or both players, aren’t using dishonest methods? 

If you’re at home and have a board, it’s basically the same thing as you can see the consequences of playing specific moves.

If I understand correctly -- I think there may be (or was 4 years ago!)

I saw this in Reddit:  What I would like, is a software on my phone which functions exactly like a chess board. I can pick up pieces, I can move pieces, take pieces off the board - anything - just like playing on a chess board. 

And the answer:  I use the lichess app for this purpose. It has a board editor where you can set the board up in any way. Once it's set up, you can go to the analysis option and play through a recorded game, and if you want to try a different line you can cycle through the moves and change it.

If you want a regular chess board option, then you can just stay on the board editor(I guess).

I also found these to Forum topics discussions of interest to your question (I hope you, ohers do too!)

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/is-there-a-physical-chess-board-app

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/setting-up-a-board-position-for-self-play

Again -- Hope I understood correctly -- this does seem to work (and the URL can be accessed for the last position/where one left things.)

https://lichess.org/editor

It's similar to what I meant. The problem is there's still the option to practice against the computer, at which point, the only thing stopping another from playing their opponent's moves against the AI would be.. 🤷🏼‍♂️ who even knows why that happens. My idea is to simplify the current Board Editor, scraping the AI altogether - no computer button or anything.

hmm..now that I think about it, there wouldn't be anything to stop them from just opening the analysis board. 🤔

I don't know. Seems like this post needs to be scrapped.

Here's another idea, but I'm not going to make a completely new post about it though. The Puzzle feature on Lichess has the full notation for each puzzle. This might help with the more difficult ones.

There is an Apple app ... https://apps.apple.com/us/app/simple-chess-board/id531158560

I know nothing about 'apps' though!  But this sound like what you want (I to do want something like this -- I hand-write out board positions -- now I just make the effort to try to memorize and play in my head!) 

To be frank -- I'm looking for an old flat physical magnetic board to carry around! Got the physical boards at home -- looking at two right now -- but last time I actually played OTB was.... I have no idea how many YEARS! So I actually have become more used to the computer screen flat board! Sadly.)

Oh yeaa.. 😁 that's perfect. Right on KMR.

Again, I'm not sure how they'd implement something similar here. Seems like it would be ineffective and not used all that much; oh well.

This one's great though, I like it a lot. 👍🏼

There the Analysis Board and Daily games have a built in option for manual analysis to test things out. As far as I'm aware, the apps don't have a standalone board, just the one in Daily games, but the website does.

@Martin_Stal -  Newbie ideas.. of course they have it covered. Thanks for answering.

I think I'll avoid this section for a while.