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, ...

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 ...
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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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Building A Self-Playing Chess Board Robot

As popular as the game of chess is, it has one massive flaw. This being that it requires two participants, which can be a challenge. Although playing chess on a computer against an AI has been a ...