ChessUp 2 tips and notes

What even is ChessUp

Just got my Chessup 2 board, sad to say I can't use it yet as 4 pieces aren't recognized. I forced a firmware update, poked holes in the felt, and used board editor to confirm. Hopefully they'll reply soon and send me working pieces because on paper this is everything I'm looking for.

Probably me. Thanks for the tip!

I got my board today...

I was soooo happy, like a kid at Christmas...

My daughter and I started to play, and .... midgame the white king started to act up... and for the second game it refuses to cooperate. Please advise

Just got my board. Amazing. Is there any sound at all? Thanks

Sounds like overall that this is a great product with many, many launch-day glitches. Hope they sort these things out. It costs too much money to have anything not working when you get it.
(edit: I say this as someone who currently cannot use their board because it came with a bad rook. waiting two weeks for a replacement piece)

I cancelled my kickstarter order after I saw Danny Rench say in a video that he has experienced problems using the chessup2 board! I am thankful I did after reading all the issues with this new board.

I am waiting for my order to arrive. Let’s hope that there are hundreds of happy customers for each unhappy 🙏

We are supposed to email them. Sounds like they will send us new pieces. I hope so because FOUR of mine don't work.

There usually are. Not many happy people post, so the posts get skewed towards the issues side.

I am happy with mine, small issue with the WiFi but it works fine with the app. Glitches and issues like this always crop up on new products/technologies. Kickstarter projects. Chessnut, which has pretty rock-solid products, had issues with the Air at first and the Evo had lots of bugs. The Chessup 1 had issues as well but that is great platform.

The issues will get worked out, Jeff and his team are great and are always working to iron things out.

Probably for the best. New products like this always have issues when they first hit the wild. It is the price you pay for being on the bleeding edge.

You have to know it going in and just be confident that they will be fixed. After my experience with Chessup 1 I know that anything that is wrong will be fixed, and new features will be added.

But things like this are not for the faint of heart.

I will say that although I'm frustrated, I do appreciate how candid Jeff has been in the Chessup.com forum about the issues. I'm just dying to use this gorgeous board, but the openness is very reassuring and I'm hopeful they'll send me working pieces as soon as they can. I'm particularly interested in the 2 player function, hoping to get my husband to play Chess with me using the assist mode.

I totally understand that first "Vikings " are experiencing some problems. I was just hoping that it wouldn't be me... haha

I also hope that the bad king is the ONLY bad piece, but it's hard to check, since it takes 20 min ( or more) to get that "bad, bad King" to register, so that I can start the game ( and play only until it calls for the white king to be moved... lol).

I just want to try out as much as I can, so that once the "white king " issue is fixed, I don't discover a few more bad pieces ( then I will cry for real).

Otherwise, I am IN LOVE with the board, it looks and feels AMAZING. I am totally enjoying that I don't have to "pin" my phone to it ( especially if it's not me but my kid who's playing). And it is very intuitive ( the tiny screen actually is big enough. lol)

My kid and I just can't stop playing with lbl 6 assistance, so that we can check EVERY piece ( twice), and watch the "disco" style menu of moves...