Man builds electrified chessboard that shocks players for bad moves

Heisler’s Skinner box-esque chess set was inspired by similarly masochistic DIY projects like an electrified keyboard, and gets its voltage from a reconfigured TENS unit. Short for Transcutaneous ...

Homemade chess board moves its own pieces. And wins.

To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...
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Cynus Chess Robot: A Chess Board With A Robotic Arm

There are many chess robots, most of which require the human player to move the opposing pieces themselves, or have a built-in mechanism that can slide the opposing pieces around to their new ...
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Taser Chess Teaches Valuable Lessons The Hard Way

Over the last few centuries, behavioral psychologists have documented all kinds of ways of modifying our actions and the ...
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Millennium Chess Classics Review: A Premium Board That Rewards Patient Players

I went hands-on with the Millennium Chess Classics Exclusive (M828), and here is what you should know before buying it.
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DeepMind's AlphaZero beats state-of-the-art chess and shogi game engines

Almost a year ago exactly, DeepMind, the British artificial intelligence (AI) division owned by Google parent company Alphabet, made headlines with preprint research ("Mastering Chess and Shogi by ...