For Chessnut Move owners
If you own a board that moves itself, this is what you bought it for.
Coffeehouse Chess drives the Chessnut Move straight from your browser over Bluetooth. You say your move, the opponent’s pieces slide across the board on their own, and a voice tells you what happened and why. No phone in your hand. No screen to look at. The board becomes the whole interface, which is what the board was always supposed to be.
What changes when a board is paired
Your moves are read off the board
Move a piece with your hand and it registers. There is no second click or confirmation. If the board and browser ever disagree, play pauses while they resynchronise.
Its moves happen in front of you
The persona says “knight takes f6” and the knight goes to f6 while it is still speaking. The magnet does the work; you never touch its pieces.
The lights point at things
The board’s LEDs light the square being discussed. That might be the trainer’s next move, the hanging piece, or the square where it just found something.
The screen stops mattering
Voice in, physical board out. Once it is paired the monitor is a nicety, and the on-screen board deliberately steps back so it stops competing with the real one.
Setup
Three steps, about a minute.
Turn the board on
Charged, powered up, sitting where you can reach it. Nothing to install and no companion app to sign into.
Pair it in the browser
One click, one browser permission prompt. The connection runs directly from your machine to the board over Bluetooth. It does not route through us.
Say something
Set the position, pick an opponent, and start talking. The pieces move themselves from that point on.
Learning an opening? The squares light up. Green for the move you should have found, red for the one you played.
No smart board?
Everything works on screen, and that’s how most people play. The board is a nice-to-have, not a requirement.
Coffeehouse · annual
Planned at $190/year for the board you already own.
90 voice minutes a month, all five personas, persona memory across games, and the opening trainer driving your board’s lights. There is no separate hardware plan. The board is what makes the ordinary one worth having.
What you need, honestly
A Chessnut Move board, and a browser that can talk to it. Chrome, Edge and Brave on desktop do everything, including driving the board. On Android, Chrome does everything including boards. Safari and Firefox do voice and the on-screen board but cannot pair one because they do not implement Web Bluetooth. On iOS, voice and on-screen play are the only options. That is an Apple limitation, not ours.
Chessnut and Chessnut Move are trademarks of their owner. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or partnered with them. Our relationship is limited to technical compatibility with the board.