Main Ideas | How it is different to Picochess

The main idea behind this project is to bring a modern solution for people, who want to play chess against the computer, but without the distraction of displays, sounds and other things. This software fits perfect on a small soc like the raspberry pi zero 2. It is intended to be used without a display. Everything you need, for setting up a game, is done via the pieces and leds on the board. Furthermore, you can use both buttons on the board for setting up a position or restarting a game. At the moment, there is now way to set up the strength of the engines via the board. You have to use the config file for this.

This is a program written in Python. You can connect your Chessnut Air eboard to your pc and play against chess engines. At the moment we only support the Chessnut Air eboard and only via bluetooth. We tested the program with stockfish and the texel chess engines. Both work as intended so we can say, that all uci engines should work. Also the emulation of old chesscomputer via mame works, only the takeback function does not work at the moment.

Supports Windows 10 (should work, but not tested)
Supports Linux distributions with BlueZ >= 5.43 (See Linux backend for more details)
OS X/macOS support (should work, but not tested)
we tested this software on a Chessnut Air. As far as we know, it should work on a Chessnut Pro and a Chessnut Air+ too (Please let us know!).
So far, I have only tested this software on Linux.