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Play GNU Chess On Your Scanner

Posted by timothy on from the time-on-hands dept.

leighklotz writes "Debian developer and Internet Mail Archive founder Jeff Breidenbach of PARC has made GlyphChess, a chess-playing copier using Python, GNU Chess and DataGlyphs attached to the bottom of the pieces. DataGlyphs are cool 2D barcodes made out of / and \ marks for ones and zeros that use the coding from CDs for error coding. If you don't happen to have a Xerox machine at home, it also works with SANE..."

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  1. Fascinating. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I bet Mr. Spock would love to play some 3D Chess with a Xerox machine.

  2. Re:No one wants you here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    he already is in france

  3. Re:No one wants you here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    go back to france

  4. Umm... by iie1195 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why? What's the point?