The DGT electronic board driver collects positions from the board, analyzes them and sends them (together with additional commands like moves) to the program using this driver. Please note that it might be that not all commands are supported by your chess program.
The following commands are available:
The position tabsheet is useful for checking if your electronic board is showing the right position. And, if your chess program supports it, the squares that are not matching the current position in the chess program, are highlighted.
Always shows the current position on the electronic chess board and the clock times.
Normally you can leave this option checked at all times. It will automatically correct the position if you are playing with the electronic board connector on the right side, or you start with the white pieces on the top of the electronic board.
Clicking this button overrides automatic rotation and rotates the board. This option is useful if you start a game with a position in which the orientation of the board is not clear (for example, an endgame position with little pieces on the board). Note that these rotation settings have nothing to do with the flip function of your chess program. The diagram always shows "white on bottom".
Cutomize the colors by clicking on the little boxes, or choosing a preset.
Choosing a preset will set all driver settings. Available presets:
Here you setup the COM port that your board is connected too. These settings are stored and will be automatically retrieved next time you use the driver, so normally you only need to set this up once. When the board is detected, and communication is OK, it will show "Board Found" and display its trade mark information. When a clock is detected, it will show "Clock Found".
Choose the COM port that your electronic board is connected to. The available ports on the system are automatically detected and enumarated here. Selecting "STOP" will stop all communication with the board. Selecting a port will initiate communication over that port, which should not take more than a few seconds.
Clicking this button rescans your system for available COM ports. This is only useful is you just installed an extra COM ports, for example if you plugged in a DGT USB board after starting the driver. The detected ports are enumarated on the left.
Click this button if you just plugged in a clock, or switched to an XL clock, and it was not detected yet.
For setting up proporties of the driver window itself, and the move reconstruction algorithm.
If this option is checked, this window stays on top of all other windows.
When checked, the next time you open the dialog it will appear open in the same location on your desktop. Otherwise, it will open in the center of the screen.
When checked, lifting a King and placing it back gives a "move now" instruction to the program user the DLL.
When checked, placing both kings in the center issues an end of game command
to the program using the driver.
1-0: Kings on e4 and e5 (the white center squares)
0-1: Kings on d4 and e5 (the black center squareS)
draw: all other combinations
Amount of milliseconds to wait before a move is send to the program. This gives you some time to slide e.g. a bishop over the board. A setting between 500 and 1000 ms is recommended.
If checked, the move delay will not be used when you play with a knight, king,
pawn (unless it's on the 2nd/7th) rank, or when you slide a bishop, queen or
rook to the edge of the board. This only works if the program that uses the
DLL informs the DLL of the correct position, and there are no mismatched squares.
As extra, checking this option makes it possible to anticipate one move of the
opponent ("premove"). If you guessed correctly, and you already played
your response on the board, it will be send at once.
If there is a difference between the position in the program, and the position on the electronic board, the different squares will highlight. If more than "max errors" squares are highlighted, no move reconstruction is done at all.
Several options for owners of a DGT XL clock.
Shows the typed message on the display of the XL clock.
Stops to display the typed message and shows the times again.
The symbols used to represent the pieces on the display of the XL.
If checked, any difference between the DGT board position and the position in the program is shown on the display of the XL.
If checked, the clock will beep when it shows a new announcement.
If the positions remain different, the clock will beep every x seconds.
The amount of time (in milliseconds) to wait before actually instructing the clock to display the announcement. The idea is to prevent your own moves from being displayed.
If you like to hear the announcements, you can install a sound scheme. Selecting "none" disables vocal announcements.
Press this button to update the list. Only useful if you installed a sound scheme while the driver is running.
Speaks the move Ne4xf6#.
Sets the amount of milliseconds to wait before the vocal announcement is played.
Amount of millisecond truncate the end of each part of a move, to avoid delays while speaking a move. For each sound scheme, a different setting is optimal here.
If you select a sound from the popdown menu, you will hear this sound when the position on the DGT board is synchronized with the actual position in the program using the DLL. You can add your own sounds by copying them to the \Program Files\DGT Projects\Sounds folder.
If you select a sound from the popdown menu, you will hear this sound when the position on the DGT board is not synchronized with the actual position in the program using the DLL. So if there is a move form the opponent, and you lift the wrong piece, you'll hear it. You can add your own sounds by copying them to the \Program Files\DGT Projects\Sounds folder.
Opens the website http://www.dgtprojects.com/downloads.htm, where you can download sound schemes.
Version and copyright information.
Click the button to visit the website of DGT Projects at http://www.dgtprojects.com
Click this button to check if there is a new version of the driver available for download at http://www.dgtprojects.com/download.htm
If an update has been found, you can click this button to download it. Before you install the new driver, you have to close any program that is using the driver.