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 ...
BusinessMirror

Duolingo’s PvP mode now on Android with the 1st Indonesia chess activation

JAKARTA—Duolingo, the world’s leading learning app, announced the launch of its Chess’s Player-vs-Player mode (PvP) on ...
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This chess set literally shocks players when they make bad moves

Losing your queen hurts enough without actual voltage, but the Open Chess project takes competitive gaming to electric extremes while democratizing smart board technology. Competitive chess already ...
Bleeding Cool

Learning & Mastering Chess: We Review The GoChess Lite

We had a chance to review the GoChess Lite, an electronic chess board designed to teach, compete, and bring a modern style to chess ...

Magnus Carlsen on how many moves he can visualise in advance during games: 'Most of the time I see...'

Magnus Carlsen has finally revealed how many moves he usually visualises ahead during chess games. Here’s what the five-time world champion thinks of how far top players can actually calculate the ...
Hackaday

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 ...