What is the cable connected to the chess boards using in candidate tournament?
Those cables also connected to clocks. does it automatically record moves?
Those cables also connected to clocks. does it automatically record moves?
It allows the board and clock to be connected to a computer, so that they can be broadcast digitally, such as
lichess.org/broadcast
or on chess24, et cetera. But they can also record moves.
lichess.org/broadcast
or on chess24, et cetera. But they can also record moves.
The cable is serial. Likely USB. Might be a 9-pin DIN, but easily converted to USB.
Yes, the cables track time and moves.
Correction: The cables don't do this, but link to a computer to receive information from board and clocks (computers actually do the tracking).
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I do a little wood-working, in addition to playing chess, and being a programmer. As a little project, I made myself a digital chessboard. (First time, it sucked.) In any case, while I was laying the pieces, I added some small magnets under the wood squares (embedded below). All the micro-wiring from the squares go to a small Adruino controller which sits in a slot on the side of the board (so I can upgrade it later if I want to, re-program things). Hacked apart of couple of older, cheap digital clocks to integrate with the Adruno controller. Carved out the bottoms of a bunch of pieces and put small NFC chips in them (like the things bio-hackers put in their body) -- each programmed to the particular piece type.
All of the programming for logging the moves (per game type), and the times is done independent of the Adruno setup. That's where a USB or serial cable of some sort comes in. The Adruino board just takes and relays information like the time, piece-from, piece-to, and which type of piece (NFC chip) was moved.
In terms of programming, the software is simple enough it'll handle PGN output for Chess, Fischer Random, ZH and Bug.
In simpler terms: It's probably cheaper to buy a digital board than to build your own. I did mine as a small side project. But, altogether, the whole thing is trivial. What it boils down to is a board with sensors under each square, and pieces that activate those sensors. Then whatever happens on the board is logged electronically through the cable (including integration with clocks to track exact move times, etc).
Yes, the cables track time and moves.
Correction: The cables don't do this, but link to a computer to receive information from board and clocks (computers actually do the tracking).
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I do a little wood-working, in addition to playing chess, and being a programmer. As a little project, I made myself a digital chessboard. (First time, it sucked.) In any case, while I was laying the pieces, I added some small magnets under the wood squares (embedded below). All the micro-wiring from the squares go to a small Adruino controller which sits in a slot on the side of the board (so I can upgrade it later if I want to, re-program things). Hacked apart of couple of older, cheap digital clocks to integrate with the Adruno controller. Carved out the bottoms of a bunch of pieces and put small NFC chips in them (like the things bio-hackers put in their body) -- each programmed to the particular piece type.
All of the programming for logging the moves (per game type), and the times is done independent of the Adruno setup. That's where a USB or serial cable of some sort comes in. The Adruino board just takes and relays information like the time, piece-from, piece-to, and which type of piece (NFC chip) was moved.
In terms of programming, the software is simple enough it'll handle PGN output for Chess, Fischer Random, ZH and Bug.
In simpler terms: It's probably cheaper to buy a digital board than to build your own. I did mine as a small side project. But, altogether, the whole thing is trivial. What it boils down to is a board with sensors under each square, and pieces that activate those sensors. Then whatever happens on the board is logged electronically through the cable (including integration with clocks to track exact move times, etc).
Thank you @MrCharles @V1chess
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