Frequently asked questions

All-in-1 chess lesson on the digital board

As a digital teaching method for school chess, Chessity is fully suitable for use on the digital board. By connecting your computer to the digital board, you get all lessons, example problems, exercises, and games interactively on the digital school board. This saves a lot of time and works very pleasantly. But as a teacher, you sometimes also want to be able to set up your own positions on the board. For example, to discuss a game, show a nice mate pattern, or to go through difficult tactical exercises with the students.

The digital demo board is one of the Coach functions included with a premium coach account

Then choose this icon:

With the digital demo board you can:

• Quickly load or set up a position: pieces can be placed or removed with a click on the chessboard

• Or use the FEN button to load positions:

• Create impossible positions, like this one:

 stalemate...

or the positions from the chess fairy tale with the three black kings:

 3x mate...

• Place coins or flags on the board to create your own games

• Draw colored arrows or color squares as a visual aid to indicate attacks, threats, plans, or safe squares. This greatly helps in training chess insight.

A few more advantages:

• Nice and large, so even the students at the back of the class can see it well.
• Never lose pieces again, or have to use glue to fix loose magnets
• No more carrying or tidying up

 How do you use the digital demo board?

You use the digital board tool in the same way as you use a physical demo board in the chess lesson. The online demo board is very easy to use so you can get started right away. 

Place or remove pieces

Place pieces by 'picking' them next to the board (click on the piece) and then 'placing' them on the desired spot (click on the square or drag the piece to the square). Remove them by clicking on the piece you want to remove again or by dragging it away. You can also place another piece on it. You place coins or flags in the same way.

Place or remove all pieces

Click on the icon with the empty chessboard to remove all pieces from the board.

Click on the icon with the starting position to set up the starting position.

Color square: click a color and then click on the square you want to mark. Click on the square again to remove the color.

Color area: click a color (button with corners) and then click the border squares of the area you want to mark. Click on the same border squares again to remove the color.

Draw arrow: click an arrow and draw an arrow by moving the mouse over the board with the mouse button pressed. Repeat this action to remove the arrow.

Remove marking: click on the eraser on the left to remove all markings on the board.