Hi, is there any plans to build native integration with DGT boards? Chess.com made it available in their beta version, but since I'm mostly playing on lichess, would be great to have it too.
It's our Holy Graal :)
Lichess does not integrate with any physical board, and I don't see any issue in our issue tracker for this.
Potentially you could create a BOT account and write your own integration.
Potentially you could create a BOT account and write your own integration.
I think I understand why API is not publicly available for every player and is limited to BOT accounts. This should help prevent cheating, this is clear. The problem though is that OTB experience is very different from PC chess. And personally I'm often feeling some confusion switching to OTB game from online chess. Practicing with DGT board could be a perfect solution if devs would consider this some day.
I've registered a bot account, but found out it is pretty much limited in seeking for games. I can practice with a friend, but it needs some coordination in timing.
To prevent cheating such games might be limited to only casual mode with no rating changes. Or only negative changes for the side which is playing through API and not native web interface.
I've registered a bot account, but found out it is pretty much limited in seeking for games. I can practice with a friend, but it needs some coordination in timing.
To prevent cheating such games might be limited to only casual mode with no rating changes. Or only negative changes for the side which is playing through API and not native web interface.
sadly, chess.com is once more ahead of lichess
It's limited to BOT accounts bc it otherwise would sacrifice a ton in relation to anticheating.
How do you create a bot account? I don’t understand
Please see: lichess.org/api#operation/botAccountUpgrade
As I said the problem of BOT accounts is that you can't seek for games as a regular human player. It makes the whole notion of e-boards way less appealing. I know that there are some desktop PC apps already, that are capturing moves from the e-board and are emulating clicks in the native web interface.
On the cheating side - it will exist till it makes sense and one can achieve something with it, like higher rating. I was thinking - why not to limit BOT accounts to casual games only, but allow them to seek for games the same way as regular accounts. I believe for the purpose of training it would make sense, but I why would one cheat if winning doesn't improve your rating at all.
On the cheating side - it will exist till it makes sense and one can achieve something with it, like higher rating. I was thinking - why not to limit BOT accounts to casual games only, but allow them to seek for games the same way as regular accounts. I believe for the purpose of training it would make sense, but I why would one cheat if winning doesn't improve your rating at all.
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