[Scidvspc-users] New eboard device support

[Steve A <ste...@gm...>]

Hi Everyone,
There's some exciting news regarding Graham O'Neills eboard drivers. He's
recently released versions of them where they operate as UCI engines, and
using this, we've made some changes to ScidvsPC that enables good windows
and also linux support. Basically, this now enables (supported) eboard
games to be played/input in ScidvsPC, and also played against UCI engines
and online with fics.

The code is now in svn, and also here as a windows gui update which can
installed over the top of scid.gui in scidvspc-4.23
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/windows-beta/scid.gui-22012023.zip/download

Obviously this is a niche feature but hopefully some people will find it
useful, and testing would be great. Below is the new help info.

cheers, Steven
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Electronic Chessboards

Graham O'Neill has been releasing drivers for numerous electronic chess
boards
for a while now. At Graham's Chess page

https://goneill.co.nz/chess
https://goneill.co.nz/chess#linux

 you'll find lots of information, including Windows support for

    Certabo
    Chessnut
    DGT
    DGT Pegasus
    Millennium
    Novag Citrine
    Novag USB
    Saitek
    Square Off

 A subset of these are also supported in Linux.

Basically, one installs the UCI Engine version of the appropriate driver
from Graham's site and, by starting the driver using the Analysis Engines
option, your eboard can now be used to enter chess games, play online with
FICS, or against an UCI Engine.

 This is a new feature and hopefully it will mature as we go. A huge thanks
to Graham for his great eboard support and documentation. :)