How does dgt board work

You MUST have to incorporate some chess computer in it if you want something more usefull. BUT you has to do that anyway, so I think you are right, but what is the cost for that? You will need 64 readers, and 32 RFID tags, all of them marked like 'black pawn', 'black knight', etc. The electronic doesn't need to figure out via backtracking what piece is where, but it needs to accept a more complex signal a signal that says "I'm cell e4, and a white pawn just landed here".

And the design has more questions: 1. How does you inform that the move is completed? A clock must be attached? When studying, how you tells the chessboard that you are not making moves, but that you are "undoing" moves? I think that the simplest way is to tell the board to "look to the other side" when you are placing the pieces and when you are ready you tell it to read the position.

Sorry for late response to your question. You can talk directly with the inventor of the product at www. Additionally, at the top left of the screen at ruschess are some articles on the actual practice of play of DC Distance Chess using sensory boards where you will see my name listed along with the high and mighty :.

Cordially, Phil Innes. I'll do that when I get the chance and post the results here. What model? They describe some backgrounds. Some on the insight of the board: Under the squares, a polyester foil is mounted, with silver-ink printed traces. The traces form 16 loops: one loop under each column and one under each row.

The loops are connected to some electronics at the side of the board, with overall PCB size about 4 cm x 13 cm. The electronics contain a microprocessor with RS interface, and various logic ports. The column loops go through a 8 to 1 multiplexer analog switch, which is connected to an analog amplifier input.

The output of the amplifier goes throuh a 1 to 8 multiplexer analog switch, which connect to the 8 row loops. The pieces contain a LC tuned resonator on a ferrite rod, in the frequency range of KHz. By selecting one loop and one row, the ampifier is a feedback system that oscillates when a piece is on the selected square. Hope this clarifies a lot.

Please send any further questions directly to my email address b Ben Bulsink "Cesar A. How electronic chessboards works. Reply to author. Report message as abuse. Show original message. Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message.

Mike N. In addition, are there other similar devices available? Noah Roberts. David Richerby. Grossmann wrote:. Phil Innes. David, This is not how sensory boards works at all. David Kirkby. Hi Dr. David, Sorry for late response to your question. Jet Jaguar. Your basic idea would work. When DGT Pi calculated its next move this move will be shown on the display. Step 1 Point to the flashing cross to calibrate, press ESC to exit. Point on each coordinates accurately.

The coordinates will be moved continually until the calibration is completed. DGT could do a better job with the pieces though. This is a great chess computer. It makes you to think a lot, every match has been fun so far. Setting up your DGT Bluetooth e-Board Important:If the battery is not fully charged it may be necessary to charge it before you can use the Bluetooth functionality of the e-Board.

To charge the battery, use the USB cable included to connect the board to a computer or to the included USB power adapter. Participants are advised to don't use the board for analyzing purposes, as it was quite usual in over the board computer chess with ordinary chessboards. From Chessprogramming wiki. Jump to: navigation , search. Navigation menu Personal tools Log in. Namespaces Page Discussion.