Stored games on DGT Pi

[Pompodorious]

I have everything up and running, thank you guys for the work done and support.

What a great way of playing chess.

My understanding is that the board stores games as long as the power is on.

How about the DGT Pi, is there a way to retrieve played games?

If yes, how many?

Will they be there after DGT Pi shutdown?

Thank you.

[Marc Hamilton]

For future reference - the PGN data is stored in the /opt/picochess/games directory of Picochess.  

However, to get the data directly from the board, DGT had(?) an app name: RabbitQueen that will download the PGN data from your board. 

I no longer see it listed in the "unsupported" software section on the DGT website. 

However, I found this *link - https://rabbitqueen.software.informer.com/download/

The app is a bit temperamental to get it to connect, just keep scanning the port. 

My understanding is the data remains on the board until it fills up and then it is overwritten. The board does not have to stay in a powered up state.    

*Disclaimer... I know nothing about the link I provided, so be careful. 

[Marc Hamilton]

I just discovered something this morning related to this...  If you have the PGN data from a game you played on your DGT Pi. This can be uploaded to chess.com to have a full analysis available of the game you played against DGT Pi engine. While in "analysis" mode on chess.com , click the '+' button at the bottom of the screen to upload PGN data and copy and paste the PGN data into the open block.

This will tell show you all the available analysis data from your game including your move accuracy, the engines move accuracy, best moves, blunders, better lines to play etc... Also give you information on the opening you played.  

I made a video of beating the Rodent 4 engine and wondered if I could use the chess.com analysis screen to add a sub-clip in the video and was pleasantly surprised to find it is possible. 

[Marc Hamilton]

Here's a video that shows chess.com analysis of a data from the DGT Pi https://youtu.be/ozK3bruFbR8