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New features include:

In this version support for bluetooth module connection has been added for both playing offline and online with official Lichess Api token.

Additional notes:

To play on Lichess via API remember to create token. The use is quite intuitive and the required token can be easily created and included (the first time only) for simple authentication on Lichess.org servers. Video instruction how to setup token at this link Setup_Lichess_Token.

Remember always to drop the .bin opening book files in the books directory like the famous Cerbellum from here https://zipproth.com/Brainfish/download/

If you want to play with your own all vintage roms remember to drop them in the engines/messchess/roms/ directory and they will appear automatically for selection in the engines windows.

And also remember if you want to enable the syzygy tablebase you need to activate them creating in users\youruser\AppData\Local\Certabo\GUI\ an additional directory called syzygy and putting there your tablebase to have them properly loaded.

Download Certabo software – PC 4.1 – 64 bit

New features include:

This versions has been widely impoved and now the followings have been added

1) It allows to play directly on Lichess.org using official Lichess API. The Lichess page can automatically be launched from main page. The use is quite intuitive and the required token can be easily created and included (the first time only) for simple authentication on Lichess.org servers. Video instruction how to setup token at this link Setup_Lichess_Token.

2) More visual features have been also added. Now the leds will guide you even much more in details during the game. The four central leds will blink during the opponent thinking time, you will promptly advised by the king led in case of check, and the relative led of piece will light up in case one piece on the chessboard is missing. Also now the complete setup of complete set can be performed in a single phase just place the spare white queen on D3 and black one on D6 during main setup all the 34 set piece will be set in a single shot.

3) Also general improvements have been made and the software has been ported to very latest Python3 with all libraries updated to the very latest release.

4) The game can be analyised in real time as you play and you can select stockfish as analysis engine (Lc0 a powerful neural network has been included but you can change it to different one for unlimited analysis possibility will be added later). Have a look to the video for instruction how to use Certabo Analysis 3.7 Video instruction

5) The most important options for the UCI engines for opponent engines and analysis engine too. You can easily select depth, ponder, number of threads etc.

6) Led's options have been extended. Now, during opponent thinking time, you can select to have the default four central flashing mode or more discete a corner flashing or no flash at all

7) Various improvments have been further done on recognition speed and further tuning

The messchess emulator is not supported by MacOS yet

Remember always to drop the .bin opening book files in the books directory like the famous Cerbellum from here https://zipproth.com/Brainfish/download/

To install there check following instructions

Instructions for Mac users

First download and install drivers. Download drivers Download_Chessboard_Mac_Drivers double click on Chessboard_drivers.dmg follow the instructions. (Please not that you need to allow authoristation to driver to be exectuted whith 30min. from installation this is required by MacOs for all drivers)

Since November 2020 Apple is moving to new proprietary chips the M1 you will find two versions the x86 will work till Catalina while the M1 will work with latest Apple Silicon processors and backward also. Once driver are installed the APP

For Mac systems based on x86 Intel processors till Catalina

Certabo Chess 3.7 MAC QUICK SETUP_MAC_x86

For Mac systems based on Apple Silicon Processors M1 and Big Sur OS

Certabo Chess 3.7 MAC QUICK SETUP_MAC_Apple_Silicon_M1

If you need additional help about installation have a look at the following video

Certabo Chess_MAC OS Software_installation_help

Connect the Chessboard to an usb port, and play