![]() ![]() The only thing I have to warn you guys about is that playing on an e-board is addicting.very addicting specially online play. The board could use integration with third party apps which the creator of the board said that's coming soon so that will be a plus. The quality and the mechanics of the Chessnut Air surprised me they are better than I expected. So far I’m having a blast and if you don’t have an electronic chess board I would recommend it or any e-board because to be honest you’re missing out just staring at a screen. It has the option to import UCI engines (not yet on the Mac OS version from what I saw). The computer app does need a lot of polishing but I rarely used it. The advantage it has over the competition is it’s using like a browser so it’s using the actual website of lichess/ itself which is genius since we know from the other boards how much or a struggle it’s been with bugs to have the app do it all. Turn on the board, connect to blue tooth then click online play and choose lichess or and you’re ready to play. Maybe it’s having actual physical pieces? Who knows. I’m making less mistakes for some reason and I can focus much better. It’s very addicting to play online on an e-board and not only that but I’ve found I play much better with a physical board. I’ve played close to 30+ games now had it for about a week. ![]() I waited months for a board capable of playing on on IOS to not even using it on My chess coach told me to start practicing on lichess and I ended up liking it and guess what it’s the only one I use now! It’s funny how life works. ![]() I decided to wait to see the reviews on those two first to see which was the overall best and then make a decision. I probably wouldn't even have gotten it if the DGT Pegasus had IOS support at the time as that's the one I liked up to that point and was almost ready to buy until I saw the Chessnut Air news of it being shipped (plus the Millenium eONE). To be honest this is one of the reasons I bought it because at the time I only played on and I have IOS. It’s the only one of the e-boards that came ready to play on for both android and IOS. ![]() I was a little worried due to it being from China but I was pleasantly surprised. The board is really good looking and it’s great quality. The software can always be updated but the mechanics can't so they definitely got the mechanics right. I'm really happy with this as this was the most important thing which led to my decision of buying it. You just put it there and done no thinking about it it's very fast and natural feeling of play. You don't have to worry about placing each piece carefully on the square. Only the chessup board from what I remember is supposed to have this from the current crop of e-boards. This is due to automatic piece recognition. You can play on it naturally as if you were playing on a regular board. This is the reason why I bought it as it has the best mechanics of any board out there (only one I have seen that has as good mechanics is the Chessup but the price is double the Chessnut Air). After months of learning and knowing pretty much all the details of the current crop of e-boards I finally found the one. Then I saw a review from someone on youtube who got it quick because they live in Hong Kong and I just knew this board was the one. This came as a surprise as they didn’t raise a lot of money as compared to other projects and I read some people saying it was a dead project and a scam. It was only until I saw a random post from someone showing a pic of Chessnut Air boxes ready to be shipped that I got serious about it. I wasn’t even thinking of buying the Chessnut Air I didn’t do much research on it to be honest and there was not a whole lot of info. I’m the type that likes to get it right the first time when it comes to purchases I want my stuff to last as I’m a minimalist I don’t like owning too much stuff. I spent months almost daily reading about the latest updates on the different e-board offerings. For those that recognize me you probably remember my posts on just about every e-board thread in this forum. ![]()
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