Chessup 2 OTB game between two chess.com users

As someone who’s thinking about purchasing Chessup 2, a game changing feature for me would be to be able to play an OTB game with another chess.com user, likely my family member, so that after playing the game it would eventually be available in both of our accounts for review and history. Can anyone owning the board suggest if such a feature is available? Thanks.

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Hi

In another post ’ Guest accounts OTB ’ Jeff gave this answer about it.
So it’s not an option right now but they are looking at it.

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In that case, could one of the two players make moves on the phone on chess.com, so that the moves are then replicated on the board? But the players would technically still be playing at the board sitting next to it? And the initial request would be satisfied, i.e. both players would have the game available for review on chess.com upon completion.

Is this scenario feasible, Jeff?

I guess this is already possible but would not be as user-friendly than enjoying the full OTB experience and getting it reflected on chess.com. Of course one of the user might use the phone but he’ll lose time in making the move on the phone AND the board and not sure it’s enjoyable on the long term. I’m looking forward to seeing this option implemented on the board directly. As Jeff already replied, it’s not only on their hand but hopefully it would be doable.

You could do that - but we will figure out something better.

The need for this feature is very clear to us. However, there is no precedent for a chess.com rated game happening off site. So the solution will likely be something that uploads it for review, but it is not a rated game.

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