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Online Chess With Physical Pieces On a Chessboard

Posted by Soulskill on from the i'll-take-your-castle-with-my-horse dept.

D4C5CE writes "A chess-playing German tinkerer has contrived (and made a video of) an amazing contraption that plugs real chess pieces into the freechess.org server using a 20W LED projector and an old webcam to read moves on a projected chessboard."

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  1. Lightning chess by Rockoon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Most of the games played on freechess.org are 'lightning' games, and usually its the 'fastest' setting of "1 0" which is 1 minute total per player with no time added per move. Some of the players individually have game counts in the hundreds of thousands. Normally these players play 'sets' of games, 10 or more consecutively, against any given opponent.

    Some of the player play a very hucksterish style, with the goal being to simply eat away at their opponents clock with surprise checks, highly dubious sacrifices, and other outright gorilla tactics. Its very fun to watch, and to play.

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    "His name was James Damore."
  2. Re:Opponent moves? by lobiusmoop · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Or even this?

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    "I bless every day that I continue to live, for every day is pure profit."
  3. Sort of off topic by BigSes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I often wondered why they never gave Deep Blue, or any other chess playing PC, an interner connection. S, if you think youre the tits, you can go online to www.beatdeepblue.com or some shit, and play. You may have to wait in a queue, so it can dedicate all computational power to the art of chess, but why couldnt this be possible? Pipe dream I guess, or vodka dream.