Some suggestions and queries for chessup2

Hi everyone,

So it’s been a couple of months I’ve had the board and I’m quite happy with it! Thanks for the team and all the hard work that has been put into making such a cool thing for the players :slight_smile:

However I feel like I’m missing a couple of things or maybe I’m not using the features properly.

1- I would like to have a mode where I can choose the opening I would want to learn and have the AI play against me where I can see best moves (or AI suggesting them), take back moves if I want to try some other line and just play around to see what would happen if I did this or that move.
Kind of like what’s possible on chesscom with the game review.
It’s very important for me, as a beginner, to see what would happen if I choose to do this move instead of that one, what are the implications down the line, and what is the best move and why … I believe that’s important for the learning process especially for the openings.

2- After playing a game on the board I would like to be able to review it on the board and not through the app. Otherwise I don’t see any usefulness to play it over the board. The goal of the board is to get away from the screen and play “real” chess. So if each time I need to review something or learn something I have to go back to my phone, it defeats the purpose.

3- I always seem to have a time issue when playing on chess.com. Although I move as quickly as possible and I except a couple of seconds to be taken from the clock but when it’s my turn again I find myself losing tens of seconds. I don’t know if it’s a sync problem or something else but because of that I don’t play rated games on chesscom to not loose because of the time which happens too often to my liking.

4- When I’m on wifi I saw on other threads that the AI is the strongest. But do I have to go through the app for that ? I put the bot at level 12 and still see that it messes up easy wins for it.

5- The editor still doesn’t recognize castling. Is this going to be fixed or am I missing something.

Thank you for your feedback. It’s much appreciated

Regards

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Hey Jay glad you’re enjoying the board.
Regarding your first inquiry the answer is actually readily available. If you use the CheesUp app and click the bot option. There is the “advanced options” at the bottom.


This allows the user to force the bot to stick with an opening. You can even choose specific lines.


P.s. If you have assistance on then you can see the “good/excellent/best” moves for the opening system and after.
Hope this helps

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