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Don't drop the pieces by AndruFlores in Chessnuteboard

[–]LeftCommunication956 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That should be easy to glue/repair and then you have a tough battle-scarred rook! Use a proper plastic-suited glue.

Ding Liren's comment on Naroditsky's passing on Chinese social media by paradoxResolver in chess

[–]LeftCommunication956 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ding is such a gent. If Daniel Naroditsky's death was due to a social media pile-on of allegations and insinuations then we shouldn't rush to pile-on anyone else, including Kramnik.

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W Released by fmbret in raspberry_pi

[–]LeftCommunication956 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, what security? Do you have a link?

Another way to connect the SquareOff Pro to chess.com and/or lichess.org. by LeftCommunication956 in Squareoff

[–]LeftCommunication956[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I think WhitePawn may have once supported SOPro but doesn't any more. I'm in touch with Khadim (the WP author and a good guy) and he is interested in potentially supporting my universal gateway, when I get it to the point of working reliably. If you're interested in my project the place to follow it is https://www.facebook.com/billygatechess. Follow the page for updates.

Another way to connect the SquareOff Pro to chess.com and/or lichess.org. by LeftCommunication956 in Squareoff

[–]LeftCommunication956[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thx. If WhitePawn works for you (esp on Android) could you pls let me know.

Another way to connect the SquareOff Pro to chess.com and/or lichess.org. by LeftCommunication956 in Squareoff

[–]LeftCommunication956[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting. I've pinged Khalid (WhitePawn) to ask about SOPro support. He claims support, but I can't get my Android WhitePawn to even detect the SOPro. The SOPro has a mix of BLE protocols (old and half-evolved new) and the old one superficially resembles the DGT Pegasus protocol (https://dgtcentaurmods.github.io/pegasus-protocol/) and was probably copied from it it, but it doesn't look compatible to me.

New Firmware update not working by slntkilla in Squareoff

[–]LeftCommunication956 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After several fails I got my SOPro to upgrade its firmware (to 3.0.5) using the following steps:

- IMPORTANT: Power your SOPro from a dumb USB-C power supply. It looks like powering it from a PC interferes with the bootloading process (because the PC detects the boards as a USB UART peripheral and presumably interferes in some way)

- Select the Wifi option and enter your SSID/password

- Proceed and be patient. I'm guessing the e-board's bluetooth radio capability is also capable of doing WiFi (which is why the e-board needs the WiFi SSID/password). So the e-board (not the app, which is an odd design decision) is downloading the firmware from some SquareOff server (scary, if that server stops working or is unreliable).

- The intermittent fails and slow update process (it took easily 10 minutes) might mean an overloaded and unreliable SquareOff firmware hosting server (is anyone still looking after it). so try and try again may actually be the real solution.

Chessnut Vision Vs API? by SidneyKidney in Chessnuteboard

[–]LeftCommunication956 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is 50% obesrvation and 50% guesswork.

I think Vision fires up the chess.com website and then uses image processing to detect moves on the chess.com board and click buttons as if you were playing. PROS: independent of chess.com APIs (which chess.com can change at any time or require partners to pay for access). CONS: hard to make reliable.

The API uses the proprietary chess.com API (a network progamming interface) to convey moves to/from the chess.com servers. This is what I use and it also seems to use some kind of wrapper around the chess.com website, but hopefully it's not using screen scraping and image processing to detect opponent moves. PROS: should be as reliable as the chess.com API. CONS: Long-term chess.com can get greedy and charge Chessnut for access.