Hallo
habe ein Problem mit den Graham eboard Treibern unter LucasChess.
Wollte fragen, ob das jemand bestätigen kann oder ob das nur bei mir so ist.
Fritz 19 , Deep Shredder 13 , Arena 3.51 funktionieren wunderbar damit.
Aber in LucasChess übernimmt LucasChess die geänderte Stellung nicht vom
eboard Treiber nachdem man diese mit Anheben der beiden Könige verändert hat.
Direkt von der Startstellung aus geht es. Aber wenn man es ein zweites Mal
aufruft, dann übernimmt LucasChess die Stellung vom Treiber nicht.
Dieses Verhalten ist unter Windows und unter Linux ( MXLinux , eine debian distro ) gleich. Es geht sowohl mit certabo Brett als auch mit Millennium Brett
nicht. Das Verhalten ist gleich.
Wollte auch noch fragen, ob es jemand geschafft hat, LucasChess unter
ArcoLinux ( eine Arch distro ) zu installieren. Unter debian distros geht es, aber
unter ArcoLinux habe ich es nicht geschafft. In verschiednen Foren war das schon Thema, aber nirgens wurde eine Lösung geliefert.
Da mein Englisch nur zum Mitlesen reicht, habe ich Graham zu diesem Problem noch nicht angeschrieben und hoffe auf Unterstützung aus diesem Forum.
Über eine Antwort würde ich mich sehr freuen.

Gruss
Rudolf

Hi Rudolf,

Sorry, but I can only answer in English!

LucasChess is a bit different to the other GUIs. You need to be in the Setup Position screen for it to accept a new position from lifting both kings. For example "Play > Play against an engine > [Initial moves] tab > Start position > Change". You can then enable the board in the top right corner, lift both kings and setup the new position. It then returns to the Initial moves tab with that position set as the starting position.

Hope that helps!

Graham

Hi Graham
thanks for your answer. Sorry, my english is not good.
Yes, from the start position it is possible. But in a running game i can not open
the "set position" dialog. This is in LucasChess not possible.
I have found a workaround. I save the position. Start a new game and load that
position in the new game and i can play from this position.
But in LucasChess it is not possible to open the "set position" dialog in a running
game.
Can you ask lukasmonk it is possible to integrate this in LucasChess , please.

My other question was , how can i install LucasChess in Arch Linux
( ArcoLinux , a Arch distro ) . In MXLinux ( a debian distro ) all is good.
I found a "snap" version that run on ArcoLinux , but it is a old version and i will
not use snap.

thanks

Rudolf

Hi Rudolf,

I passed on your message to Lucas. He says he has made a change that he would like you to try, so can you please contact him directly? His email is at the bottom of his web page: http://lucaschess.pythonanywhere.com/

He is also looking into your Linux problem.

Thanks,
Graham

Lucas has released an update to LucasChess that allows you to interrupt a playing game by lifting both kings on the eBoard and then changing the position. This should be helpful when analysing a position (or cheating when the computer is beating you!!).

In testing this I found a bug that could happen when setting up a position with the board rotated, so I have just released an update to my drivers to fix this.

The main change, though, is you can now lift both kings on the Millennium eOne, DGT Pegasus, Square Off Pro and Tabutronic boards and setup new positions using the board and screen.

There is also a fix to using the DGT board in Arena.

Hi, Graham,

Thanks for the update, but the new version 4.0 doesn't work on DGT Pegasus. It says 'Bluetooth access failed'. The previous version 3.3 works perfectly.

Thanks,
Agep

Hi Agep,

That's odd as I didn't make any changes to the connection code, and it works OK for me here. Can you let me know what OS your are using and what GUI?

Does anybody else out there have a Pegasus who can test it for me too?

Thanks,
Graham

Hi Graham,

Thank you for the info. I tried reinstalling the Bluetooth drivers and Microsoft Visual C++. I don't know what it was, but it started working.
Thank you very much for your efforts.

Thanks,
Agep

I've updated my drivers.

Buttons weren't displaying properly on screens with high DPI so I have corrected that.

Also in Fritz, if you activated the board when Fritz was in a different position (either after setting up a position or part way through a game) then my driver forced you to start a new game. This is because Fritz doesn't tell my driver what the current position is when the board is activated. I have now changed my driver for boards with piece recognition so that you can set up the pieces in the same position as Fritz and click a new button called "Read". It will then load that position into my driver so you can continue the game as expected.

https://goneill.co.nz/chess.php