3D Printable 2,5" Staunton pieces

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3D Printable 3,75" Staunton pieces

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Certabo Software

ONLINE GAMING CERTABO PC VERSION Release 3.0

This release 3.0 allows now to interface and play with any Certabo boards on Chess24.com too! The powerful algorithm will identify the remote chessboard and establish a realtime detectionand alignement of pieces on the board. It now allows also to flip the board play with the black on bottom side, moreover the banner have been hugely improved as well as the led speed for opponent move is now almost realtime finally also when a piece if offest from square or missing the relative led will light up for easy setting. Have a look at instructions before launching actual game for preliminary  simple setup. Download the latest 3.0 release of software. 

Download 64 bit Certabo Chess Online Gaming 3.0 for PC

Download 32 bit Certabo Chess Online Gaming 3.0 for PC

Previous versions

Download 64 bit Certabo Chess Online Gaming 2.0 for PC

Download 32 bit Certabo Chess Online Gaming 2.0 for PC

Download 64 bit Certabo Chess Online Gaming 1.1 for PC

Download 32 bit Certabo Chess Online Gaming 1.1 for PC

This first release allows to interface and play with any Certabo boards on chess.com!! Have a look at instructions before launching actual game for preliminary  simple setup.

PC VERSION Release 3.30  23-Oct. 2019

Download 64 bit Certabo Chess 3.30 for PC

Download 32 bit Certabo Chess 3.30 for PC

New features include:

1) It allows to play against your vintage chess roms on the solid wood Certabo chessboard using Messchess emulator! Now the Certabo board will automatically be aligned with the the Mess emultator graphical interface of each rom. What you need is just to copy the roms inside the engine directory and it will be seen like a standard engines.

2) It has been added the clock so you can play on time + increment as you wish

3) Also general improvements have been made as resynchronising of the chessboard which allow you to freerly disconnect the usb cable and cut the power to the chessboard at anytime, the chessboard will be automatically resynchronised with the software and the game will just continue from where left as soon as the usb will be reconnected.

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

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.

Previous releases can be found here 

older version PC

MAC OSx  Release 2.9  09-Sept. 2019

Download the latest 2.9 release for Mac-Os drivers and follow instruction reported below

Instruction for Mac user

1) First download and install drivers. Download drivers here double click on Chessboard_drivers.dmg follow the instructions.

2) Once driver are installed, Download Certabo Chess 2.9 for MAC

3) Unzip the directory anywhere you prefer

4) Connect the Chessboard to an usb port,

5) Go in the directory, open a terminal, type  ./run and press enter.

Raspberry Pi3 version 2.90

The Raspberry Pi3 Certabo software is now aligned to version 2.90! 1Gb syzygy endgame tablebase has been included, and opening books are also embedded for easy selection from menu. 

Download the .img file and burn it onto an micro SD following instruction here. Please be aware the file is about 4 Gb and will take a while to download.

Certabo_Chess_Raspberry_Pi3_2.90

Please note that not all engines included support the Random Fischer mode. The 2.90 version  not supported by Pi zero

Previous releases of Raspberry Pi versions can be found here 

older Raspberry Pi versions

Instruction manual Certabo software 

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