Hey everyone! Greetings from Florida. Just purchased my board and am really enjoying it.
Looking for some support with the following, please –
Goal: Watch my game on chess .com/live via desktop while playing OTB on my Chessup2 Board
Issue: Most times, the game will appear on the chess .com/live website and not my board (board UI will still indicate I’m looking for game). This makes me have to play and finish the game via PC. I even had a issue once where the game began on the chess .com/live site and seemingly on my board (both player names and ELO’s appeared, clocks appeared, etc.), but my board would not register the moves happening.
Question: What’s the most surefire way to play OTB and also see my game on Chess.com? I have tried launching the game OTB and then accessing the chess .com/live page and that has worked. HOWEVER, this does not work for the subsequent game that I queue up for afterwards. I either get stuck in the infinite “Searching” screen on my board or the game launches only on the website and not on my board.
I’m feeling a little frustrated constantly having to reboot the board, resync my chess .com account to the Chessup app/board, etc.
Looking forward to any guidance/insights. Thanks yall!
P.S. Can only submit 2 hyperlinks in a post so that’s why the majority of the Chessdotcom references are stylized as “chess .com/live”
Thanks for the replies, all. I’m not necessarily asking for any built-in feature. I apologize if my post was not clear:
You can currently play OTB on the ChessUp board (via Chess.com integration) & have the game open via chess .com/live. However, when I do this sometimes, the board becomes unresponsive and the game will ONLY load on the web client instead of the physical board. I am inquiring about a reliable way to play OTB while watching my own game via chess .com/live. It currently works maybe 50% of the time.
I’m not sure but I think Jeff said something about that. If you start a game, Chess .com decides if you get 1 or 2 tokens. 2 tokens means that you can log in with another chess. Com account while the game is playing. But if you do it with 1 token the new login will take over and you can’t use the board. Again, I m not sure, but I think that’s the cause.
@j0dd have you tried viewing the game through the Chessup app as opposed to chess.com on the web browser? That may work better.
I’ve had the board since it first came out. In my experience, your are better off just playing on the Chessup board and not touching the app or chess.com website during the game. This is the most reliable. I only use the app or web site if I think there is a problem with the game. For example, I’ve been waiting so long for my opponent to move that i think maybe the board disconnected or something. When that happens, I can usually open the game in the Chessup app and keep playing on the board. If I open the game on chess.com it typically breaks the connection to the game on the board and I have to continue through the web browser.
That’s the thing once you try to watch you’re game live the token takes precedence and you’re forced to play and finish the game in the browser. The solution for what you’re looking is to either login in the browser with another account or not to log yourself at all in the browser and seeking after your username and watch the current game you’re playing on the board. Hope this helps
Thanks for the replies, all! I can certainly understand the core issue being the tokens, precedence being taken, etc.
Ideally, I would stay on my main account across PC and my ChessUp board → queue a game on my board with Chess.com open → complete a game → review via desktop → queue again on my board. Sounds like this may not be possible at this time (or at least not reliable).
@Jeff, would be curious if you have any thoughts or recommendations here too. I would like to begin streaming my games and the above is how I envisioned my “PEMDAS” would be.
Chess.com has two different service structures for launching games - and one of them supports dual log in and one does not. The mode that does not support dual log in will “stomp” over the game and disconnect the ChessUp 2. This was especially problematic for us because people would get suspicious when the opponent was taking a long time to move, log in online, and kill the game. So we stopped promoting it as a way to “broadcast”.
However, I thought by now the safe method had rolled out to 100% of random games - but maybe not yet. It might be the case where web is different than app, etc.
You can observe the game from another account or even logged out (?I think).
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*But aside from native chess.com ways to watch - we have on the future features some broadcasting tool (for 2 player games and games beyond chess.com).
Sorry, what’s the “safe method” that you’re mentioning? I’m open to trying that or any other method that you may suggest.
I do recognize that I can create an alt account for this but I’d like to ideally be able to review my game while logged into my primary account (the account that I’m logged into via Chess.com & my Chessup2 board) and then easily queue a new game.
I meant one of the two methods that Chess.com uses to host games. We have no control over it. One method allows dual log in (safe to view), one does not (not safe to view)
I thought by now that all games were safe - but seems it is not the case.
So the only foolproof method is to observe from logged out or another account.