DGT Board Driver Documentation

— Position Tabsheet —

The position tabsheet shows the scanned chess position and clock times from your electronic board. If supported by your chess program, all squares different from the position in your chess program are highlighted.

Automatic rotation option
It is recommended to leave this option checked. Please note the white pieces will always show on the bottom of the diagram, even when you are playing with the black pieces.

Rotate button
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".

Color-settings
Cutomize the colors by clicking on the little boxes, or choosing a preset.

— Connect Tabsheet —

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".

Select port
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.

Refresh
Clicking this button rescans your system for available COM ports, and restarts the communication with your board and clock.

— Extra Tabsheet —

For setting up proporties of the driver window itself, and the move reconstruction algorithm.

Stay on top
If this option is checked, this window stays on top of all other windows.

Remeber window position
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.

Send move after delay
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.

Allow max errors
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.

— DGTXL Tabsheet —

Several options for owners of a DGT XL clock.

Announce move
Check this option to announce moves on the display of your XL.

Delay before announcement
Amount of time in ms to wait, before a move is announced.

Beep settings
Make your clock beep on any anouncement.

Display Settings
Choose the symbols to show on your XL's display.

— Sound Tabsheet —

If you like to hear the announcements, you can install a sound scheme (available via http://www.dgtprojects.com/downloads.htm). Selecting "none" disables vocal announcements.

Refresh List
Press this button to update the list. Only useful if you installed a sound scheme while the driver is running.

Test "Ne4xf6#"
Speaks the move Ne4xf6#.

Wait before announcing
Sets the amount of milliseconds to wait before the vocal announcement is played.

Speedup
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.

— About Tabsheet —