Online Chess With Physical Pieces On a Chessboard

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."

Radio Chess?

[Soulshift]

Seems very much like the radio chess sets that saw some popularity in the late '80s.

Good hack

[cgenman]

Give credit where due, people. This isn't impressive because move-sensing chessboards are somehow new. This is impressive because he made his own projector that displays time and opponent move information on the board. Then he used an old, old webcam and custom software to determine the move that he is taking. He made circuit boards, frames, and other equipment. He probably spent 100 hours and a lot of effort in order to make it slightly easier to play chess online.

If a DIY setup like this doesn't bring at least a little smile to your face, your hacker spirit is dead.

Re:*sigh*

[Anonymous Coward]

That's what you get for posting to a Slashdot thread.

This place is so full of retards who are willing to use any twisted logic to "prove" their point that it has driven off most level headed people. The only positive in this all? It keeps these same people from mingling in the streets. Here they're just a pest, in the real world they would be a menace.