Fun idea for the speed run if you'll take the suggestion, use the same openings that you actually used on your own climb to where you are at their appropriate rankings.
The price of chess boards varies wildly though. You could pay hundreds to thousands for a very old chess board that has little aesthetic but a lot of age or $15 for a harry potter themed toy chess set.
Have you looked at the price of a DGT board? ChessUp interfaces as well or better while costing less, and the DGT doesn't even have lights or an engine built in.
Those boards exist - but I prefer this one because the problem with automatic boards is they always take longer to move the piece than moving it with your hand
Making self-moving pieces/chess sets is very difficult and often the solution involves each piece having metal base or magnet and an electro-magnet (a magnet that can be switched on and off with electricity) will be inside the board moving to a piece, magnetically attracting it, then moving along the board. Overall it is a complicated and expensive solution that doesn't always look good because you have to create a system for the pieces like the knight which can jump over other pieces.
I’ve looked at boards like this, but I have one concern about using them for live online games, and that’s how to play when in time trouble. Moving your opponent’s pieces while trying to plan your next move with the clock ticking down sounds impossible.
Theyre quite a waste of money too just take a normal chess board and make the moves on your device then do it on the board one extra step for the exact same thing plus you can abandon the board if time is a problem
Great point. If you're manually repeating moves on the e-board, doing it with a manual board only reverses the steps, it doesn't really change them.@@JaidynGX
@@JaidynGXwouldn’t you have to make the moves on your computer or phone and then physically move both sides pieces? Seems with this it recognizes your moves and therefore automatically moves the cyber pieces?
@@JaidynGXthe point isn’t for the app lmao. It’s for playing with real people while also having the benefit of the lights and features. This is just one feature.
Very cool and yes this game had tremendous educational value for me. I love the way you talk through the moves and thinking. Very clear and at an understandable pace (not too fast for me like most other people).
I stopped watching the Botez sisters after they became sponsored because their content changed completely. I’m happy for you that you have sponsors. You deserve the success. Please stay the same Eric that we all know and love.
This board might make short time controls unplayable due to the time spent physically moving the pieces. Even at longer time controls time scrambles would be very problematic. It's even worse than regular OTB because of the time spent moving the opponent's pieces plus any lag in the board reporting your moves and recording your opponent's moves.
I own one - you're right about short time controls, but there's no physical board that could do it any faster. I've enjoyed using the board for rapid & the occasional blitz, though!
The invalid piece lights up purple and the position it should be in lights up purple. If you keep playing without fixing the location, it gets messy as every move after that is considered invalid.
Just went back to the video from a year ago when lichess first did this, and I noticed I'd left a comment saying it was cool, but unaffordable at $400. Now it's $300. Give it another year or two and I'll probably be tempted to buy :D
Been eyeing that board for a while. Looks so cool! But there’s a voice in the back of my head that says it might be too satisfying to look at the top suggestions all the time, when practising, so that I’ll get more used to always having help. Eric, would you say it’s a helpful tool for studying chess and analysing positions? Or would you also be careful of overusing it? Has it got built in training programmes?
nah its not that useful in terms of practice, except maybe if you think you better at online and need help seeing things in OTB, but for raw practice time spent on theory analyzing and master games will give more improvement in the general sense.
It could actually have the silver lining of having to think about your opponent's move while playing it (I mean, you don't HAVE to) which I think is quite cool
I think even though their points are refunded you should tell them you're an IM so they don't feel bad for losing (and so they don't rage quit instead of resigning). In games where I am playing against a much stronger opponent I love to analyze with computer afterwards to find out where I went wrong but in games where I lose badly to someone ranked closely I am more inclined to just say it was a bad day but then I won't be motivated to play again for the rest of the day.
Rage quit because they lose……Lmao, pretty infantile behaviour, why are you so concerned about ‘possible puerile clowns rage quitting lol. You need to grow up, you lose and are inclined not to play again that day?! How old are you six/ seven? Ffs
Or you can take it as a learning experience to lose to someone who was just better than you and played a good game.I agree with you perspective though.That's a really valid point.
@@NN-fw9ila lot of lower ranked players have a fear of losing which will drive them to playing for a draw or not taking calculated risks if they are playing seriously, but when someone is expected to lose (because they know their opponent is Magnus Carlsen, or the likes of) they don't have much fear of losing because doing well any time during the game is better than what people expect of them
@@gamemak0r I don’t think anybody who plays chess ‘likes’ to lose, but it’s part of the game you lose one then onto the next. People who sulk or rage quit are just plain ridiculous.
it would be hard to play the endgame with only a couple seconds left with this, since its a little delayed and you have to make the opponents moves for him
I really enjoyed this video, it was some short of pseudo english attack you so commonly see against kingside fiancheto openings. I surprised myself by calling out your moves before you even made them!
Do you have any problems with promoting pieces? I've gotten some bugs with the board where I promote to a queen and it registers it on my app and ofc board but on lichess it doesn't recognize i've made a move so my time just drains for a bit before i realize and have to go finish the game on mobile.
If you use this again in a video could you switch the black and white sides on the digital board on the side screen so that it matches what we see in the real board? :)
I CANT BELIEVE I MISSED THIS! I’ve been DYING waiting for this! Please please please make this like a once and a while thing you do as a series! Love you Eric
Cool concept. I hope we have more competitors in the smart chess board market, then we'd have better features like opponent's pieces moving automatically (although I'm curious to see how they'll achieve that for the knight moves), for more reasonable prices. Right now, $300 (on sale) seems waaaaay too much for what we're getting in return, but maybe that's just me.
Congrats Eric, I discovered the 3rd dimension today ! Tomorrow I'm gonna touch grass if I'm brave enough. It's interesting but really expensive, and you still need your phone around to setup each game, it's not really optimal.
I can’t decide. As a casual player who is def still learning the basics would you recommend this one , the chessnut air , or if money isn’t an issue the evo ?
I am learning chess and REALLY want to play over the board but have no one to do it with, this may be exactly what I need to get that physical experience but with real players (remotely)
Great video , thank you. Now, can you please tell me before I buy it if there will be any commitment like a monthly payment to play it alone or online?
Bf6 is also winning. The bishop can't be taken because the king is in check from the rook. The only legal move is to block the rook with the queen. If the queen goes to g2 or g4, then the rook capturing the queen is immediately checkmate. If the queen goes to g3, you can either play Rxg3 forcing hxg3 from black and then checkmate with Qg5#. Or after Qg3 from black, you can do what Eric described at 12:25- forcing the queen trade and mating with the rook.
@@MaximeTanti That's what I assumed. I was just surprised when Eric moved the bishop farther back because moving it anywhere along the diagonal would lead to a checkmate from what I saw. I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing any discrepancy.
I wish Eric would have opined on that feature of touching a piece and the board showing the legal moves. I'm guessing he'd discourage that. Visualizing legal moves in one's mind is an important skill. Is it even something they can be turned off with this board?
That's a different company, SquareOff. But I honestly wouldn't recommend it until they get the software on the thing just right because right now it can get a bit screwy.
there are a few actually, some a bit old that work with apps, but only vs computer, and I think I saw one recently that you could play online but, it was really ugly, masive board, tinny pieces EDit: just saw another coment below, check this one "PHANTOM chessboards" they aint for sale yet but aparently the will come soon, and it dosn't look that bad tbh
@@lrvz7187 Thanks mate, yeah the proportions/sizes of the pieces to the board seems to be the main issue. If somebody has made one that works quickly and does not look clunky, I would buy it.
Fun idea for the speed run if you'll take the suggestion, use the same openings that you actually used on your own climb to where you are at their appropriate rankings.
Great idea!
The board looks pretty cool but that price (430CAD ~320USD ) is going to be pretty hard to justify for a lot of people
Yeah even 300 AUD is too much but even that price I’d consider it. Nearly 2x the maximum price I’d pay no fucking way
The price of chess boards varies wildly though. You could pay hundreds to thousands for a very old chess board that has little aesthetic but a lot of age or $15 for a harry potter themed toy chess set.
Yeah, thinin the same.
It's minimum monthly net wage in my country. It's ridiculous.
Have you looked at the price of a DGT board? ChessUp interfaces as well or better while costing less, and the DGT doesn't even have lights or an engine built in.
@@LoreTunderin
Maybe then don't buy that either?
Oh, and comparing a worse and more overpriced product makes an overpriced product suddenly worth it?
bro got so angry at his mouse he decided to take control
no more mouse slips
The ChessUp is brilliant. I particularly like playing it with my son as it equalises things a bit and helps him avoid bad moves.
How does it do that?
@@a1-h8coloring all legal moves, but blunders are red.
@@goodyKoelnngl, to me that ruins a bit of chess, it's abt knowing the game.
@@greatlake_editzit only does it if the setting is set on but it’s a great way to learn bad moves or good moves
they'll think you're cheating for taking 6 seconds to make obvious moves
It would be cool if somehow the opponent's pieces moved on their own
Those boards exist - but I prefer this one because the problem with automatic boards is they always take longer to move the piece than moving it with your hand
Making self-moving pieces/chess sets is very difficult and often the solution involves each piece having metal base or magnet and an electro-magnet (a magnet that can be switched on and off with electricity) will be inside the board moving to a piece, magnetically attracting it, then moving along the board.
Overall it is a complicated and expensive solution that doesn't always look good because you have to create a system for the pieces like the knight which can jump over other pieces.
@@plebiainhow do knights move in this? Do pieces move out of the way temporarily?
@@cruetusnex Yes, and it bumps all the pieces lol.
@@cruetusnex yes, they give way for the pieces that are moving
I’ve looked at boards like this, but I have one concern about using them for live online games, and that’s how to play when in time trouble. Moving your opponent’s pieces while trying to plan your next move with the clock ticking down sounds impossible.
Theyre quite a waste of money too just take a normal chess board and make the moves on your device then do it on the board one extra step for the exact same thing plus you can abandon the board if time is a problem
Great point. If you're manually repeating moves on the e-board, doing it with a manual board only reverses the steps, it doesn't really change them.@@JaidynGX
@@JaidynGXthat’s actually genius I’m gonna try that
@@JaidynGXwouldn’t you have to make the moves on your computer or phone and then physically move both sides pieces? Seems with this it recognizes your moves and therefore automatically moves the cyber pieces?
@@JaidynGXthe point isn’t for the app lmao. It’s for playing with real people while also having the benefit of the lights and features. This is just one feature.
Very cool and yes this game had tremendous educational value for me. I love the way you talk through the moves and thinking. Very clear and at an understandable pace (not too fast for me like most other people).
6:09 Opponent: *sees white’s pieces all aimed toward the kingside corner* “Perfect, time to castle kingside!”
I used to have a DGT board and would often play online with it! Great fun!
I stopped watching the Botez sisters after they became sponsored because their content changed completely. I’m happy for you that you have sponsors. You deserve the success. Please stay the same Eric that we all know and love.
@elonif4125 He said it literally in his video at 5:53 :D
I wonder when I will be able to handle the third dimension. It might take me some months.
This board might make short time controls unplayable due to the time spent physically moving the pieces. Even at longer time controls time scrambles would be very problematic. It's even worse than regular OTB because of the time spent moving the opponent's pieces plus any lag in the board reporting your moves and recording your opponent's moves.
I own one - you're right about short time controls, but there's no physical board that could do it any faster. I've enjoyed using the board for rapid & the occasional blitz, though!
Rosen: Oh no my Queen/Rook!
Opponent: Oh no my king!
OTB always have a different feeling and also if your opponent is present on the other side of the board.
How about a whole run on the physical board? This was cool!
I’m very curious can you premove on this board? If not, how does the board react to you moving a piece when it isn’t your turn
You receive a mild 110V electric shock
@@lucmedina thanks! I just figured it would set off the IED inside so that’s good to know
@@davidshatto7604Ah no that feature is reserved for when you miss en pessant mate
@@davidshatto7604 haha
The invalid piece lights up purple and the position it should be in lights up purple. If you keep playing without fixing the location, it gets messy as every move after that is considered invalid.
what is this new dimension? i don't understand what i'm looking at
The checkmate board light up is very cool. I feel like I would probably need a 10 second increment using that board with an online game.
The one good thing about technology like this, you never have to worry about the dreaded mouse slip.
What happens if you try to play an illegal move? Will the board flash angrily?
Actually yes~
And if you try to do it twice, it will flip itself across the room.
3 times and it catapults a pawn at your forehead
4 times and it sleeps with your mom
5 times and you like your dad disappear.
Just went back to the video from a year ago when lichess first did this, and I noticed I'd left a comment saying it was cool, but unaffordable at $400. Now it's $300. Give it another year or two and I'll probably be tempted to buy :D
petition to have him play hyper-bullet on this thing
LOL!! --signed
I didn’t know chess was a real life board game! Nuts
What? Chess was played with actual physical pieces in the past? Mind blown!
Been eyeing that board for a while. Looks so cool! But there’s a voice in the back of my head that says it might be too satisfying to look at the top suggestions all the time, when practising, so that I’ll get more used to always having help.
Eric, would you say it’s a helpful tool for studying chess and analysing positions? Or would you also be careful of overusing it? Has it got built in training programmes?
nah its not that useful in terms of practice, except maybe if you think you better at online and need help seeing things in OTB, but for raw practice time spent on theory analyzing and master games will give more improvement in the general sense.
Yes, possibly ... a6 and ... h4 indicate some difficulty understanding the position.
I realized that it takes a bit of our time just to move opponent pieces. Other than that, very cool
It could actually have the silver lining of having to think about your opponent's move while playing it (I mean, you don't HAVE to) which I think is quite cool
I think even though their points are refunded you should tell them you're an IM so they don't feel bad for losing (and so they don't rage quit instead of resigning). In games where I am playing against a much stronger opponent I love to analyze with computer afterwards to find out where I went wrong but in games where I lose badly to someone ranked closely I am more inclined to just say it was a bad day but then I won't be motivated to play again for the rest of the day.
Rage quit because they lose……Lmao, pretty infantile behaviour, why are you so concerned about ‘possible puerile clowns rage quitting lol. You need to grow up, you lose and are inclined not to play again that day?! How old are you six/ seven? Ffs
Or you can take it as a learning experience to lose to someone who was just better than you and played a good game.I agree with you perspective though.That's a really valid point.
@@NN-fw9ila lot of lower ranked players have a fear of losing which will drive them to playing for a draw or not taking calculated risks if they are playing seriously, but when someone is expected to lose (because they know their opponent is Magnus Carlsen, or the likes of) they don't have much fear of losing because doing well any time during the game is better than what people expect of them
@@gamemak0r I don’t think anybody who plays chess ‘likes’ to lose, but it’s part of the game you lose one then onto the next. People who sulk or rage quit are just plain ridiculous.
You do a great job talking through your train of thoughts while playing chess (and winning :) This is a nice board, it's one of my considerations.
Love Ponziani! Want to see more of it. This was nice
Steps to watching Eric’s videos:
1. Open the video and click the like button (because you know it’s gonna be awesome)
2. Watch the video
Hi, I noticed there's a 2-3 secondes delay from the app to the board when your opponent moves. Does it happens on chessup 2 as well? Thanks.
0:12 bro i thought i invented this in my head yesterday lo and behold that same exact day
"I might be mating much sooner" caught me off guard😂😂
cutting edge and also can be used as a sorts of ways to help so many . thank you for sharing,
That board is perfect to play duck chess, you need to buy a duck piece
it would be hard to play the endgame with only a couple seconds left with this, since its a little delayed and you have to make the opponents moves for him
Next expansion pack: a duck
I really enjoyed this video, it was some short of pseudo english attack you so commonly see against kingside fiancheto openings. I surprised myself by calling out your moves before you even made them!
A very nice board, my parents bought it for my birthday last year. I love to play on it :)
Think they'd adopt me? ;)
Do you have any problems with promoting pieces? I've gotten some bugs with the board where I promote to a queen and it registers it on my app and ofc board but on lichess it doesn't recognize i've made a move so my time just drains for a bit before i realize and have to go finish the game on mobile.
I've had so many bugs on the app (Android is worse than iOS) but I hear they improved it a bit recently. Haven't had time to play much recently though
I like this because when the app stops working, it is still a fully functioning chess board.
on 3:40, isn't Bxf7 followed by Ng5+ very good for white?
7:19 THE ONE PIECEEEEEEE!!! THE ONE PIECE IS REEEEAAAAL!!!!
I dropped my screen one time and saw the third dimension... had to see it all the way to Walmart where I went to replace my fax machine of a phone.
awww eric "feel kinda bad for my opponent" so empathetic
You can sacrifice the front pawn of 2, if it's a problem. It's awesome to play like that in my fantasy, but I also like the iPad interface.
2:00 WAIT WHAT LETS GOO
We getting smart chess boards before GTA 6 💀💀
I've been following this actually! I'm such a tactile learner that I forget all the openings over-the-board cause I haven't touched the pieces.
If you touch the piece, you must move it
In 8:15 isnt Bd5 winning material? Either a knight or a rook for a bishop, or am I missing something?
Idk, but I think the opponent can just defend with Nd7 to b8
If you use this again in a video could you switch the black and white sides on the digital board on the side screen so that it matches what we see in the real board? :)
I kinda liked to think the viewer perspective of black was better because it helped me visualize the opponent’s behaviors and mistakes better!
I CANT BELIEVE I MISSED THIS! I’ve been DYING waiting for this! Please please please make this like a once and a while thing you do as a series! Love you Eric
You’re videos got me to the elusive 1400! Thank you Eric. You’re the best chess streamer in the game !
Cool concept. I hope we have more competitors in the smart chess board market, then we'd have better features like opponent's pieces moving automatically (although I'm curious to see how they'll achieve that for the knight moves), for more reasonable prices. Right now, $300 (on sale) seems waaaaay too much for what we're getting in return, but maybe that's just me.
That was really cool! Thanks for showing this!
Love the ChessUp board content.
It’s $320 for a bunch of lights that is connected to an app! That’s an expensive smart light
Congrats Eric, I discovered the 3rd dimension today ! Tomorrow I'm gonna touch grass if I'm brave enough.
It's interesting but really expensive, and you still need your phone around to setup each game, it's not really optimal.
pretty cool board eric
I can’t decide. As a casual player who is def still learning the basics would you recommend this one , the chessnut air , or if money isn’t an issue the evo ?
I can’t believe I never thought of just doing this with my chess mat.
imagine playing bullet on one of those, making moves for both sides. crazy
This is dope..got to get one for myself..tnx for review..keep rocking..
This, but with wooden pieces and a fancier board would be so cool
I am learning chess and REALLY want to play over the board but have no one to do it with, this may be exactly what I need to get that physical experience but with real players (remotely)
But there is a piece missing. Why would they ship this without the duck, which is obviously the most important chess piece?
I wanted to see what happens with that board in a time scrabble!!!
Wait for the PHANTOM chess boards to come
There already is one, it moves the opponents pieces with magnets. Its very gimmicky imo
Great video , thank you. Now, can you please tell me before I buy it if there will be any commitment like a monthly payment to play it alone or online?
11:37 why not Bf6?
Because of Qxf6 or Nxf6
Bf6 is also winning. The bishop can't be taken because the king is in check from the rook. The only legal move is to block the rook with the queen. If the queen goes to g2 or g4, then the rook capturing the queen is immediately checkmate. If the queen goes to g3, you can either play Rxg3 forcing hxg3 from black and then checkmate with Qg5#. Or after Qg3 from black, you can do what Eric described at 12:25- forcing the queen trade and mating with the rook.
@@MaximeTanti That's what I assumed. I was just surprised when Eric moved the bishop farther back because moving it anywhere along the diagonal would lead to a checkmate from what I saw. I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing any discrepancy.
Finally, a practical use for my beads
5:50 take the pawn and rook b8
but queen can take knight ?
He said QB3 Qd7 which defends the knight.
Is there a timer on the board if you want to play some one else in person
7:19 is real
Can the light indicators be disabled?
To be honest, I find practicing on a 2D screen very disorienting when I meet a 3D opponent.
I think this is a great idea for a series :D
what is the name of the set you have, the cost? I am a slow clicker, but very fast with my hands.
Yours guys pad is dope
your opponent played better than i usually do and im ~1250, kudos to them
Physical chess pieces? You mean you have to use your hands? That’s like a baby’s toy!
This is a ~much~ better setup, (visually on YT) particularly for long form (rapid, classic etc) games. [smile]
Doe s the board not show the clock(s)?
I have a chess up, I don't really use it. How do you take moves back against the AI and the bots?
Finally I can tilt and throw pieces whilst playing online!
I wish Eric would have opined on that feature of touching a piece and the board showing the legal moves. I'm guessing he'd discourage that. Visualizing legal moves in one's mind is an important skill. Is it even something they can be turned off with this board?
I don't see it as an issue because you're not sitting there touching every piece to see the legal moves
If you want to develop that skill you can just not touch the pieces until it's time to move them. Same with on your computer
@@plebiain true. For youngsters who are prone to give in to temptation, hopefully it's an option that can be turned off.
1:28 “Oh no my birds”
This is straight out of Cowboy Bebop!
Whens the board with self moving pieces coming is my question hahaha
There's already one
Finally, I got my board almost a year ago and I’ve been waiting for this update
No clock on the board?
Isn't there a board that moves the oponents pieces?
I don't think so, it would be hard to capture automatically, and also knight moves would be difficult
That's a different company, SquareOff. But I honestly wouldn't recommend it until they get the software on the thing just right because right now it can get a bit screwy.
there are a few actually, some a bit old that work with apps, but only vs computer, and I think I saw one recently that you could play online but, it was really ugly, masive board, tinny pieces EDit: just saw another coment below, check this one "PHANTOM chessboards" they aint for sale yet but aparently the will come soon, and it dosn't look that bad tbh
Yeah those exist. Some are pretty good too. They all sometimes knock over pieces and are a bit slow though.
@@lrvz7187 Thanks mate, yeah the proportions/sizes of the pieces to the board seems to be the main issue. If somebody has made one that works quickly and does not look clunky, I would buy it.
now this is the future
Play bullet on this lmao
The filming camera could be in a upper level
Excuse me, did I hear "dumb wooden chessboards"?
First saw this on ASMR chess. Hella relaxing channel
Agreed