 | | Anyone for Chess? —Andy Clapham
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| | | Just a quick note to let people know that my RCX based chess robot is finally complete. You can find more details, pictures, source-code, MLCad, movies etc at (URL) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: Anyone for Chess? —Chris Daniel
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| | | | Andy, Congratulations! I Love how the robot moves the pieces from under the board. I had the same Idea but got intimidated by piece identification Do you know if there are actual player –vs.- computer chess boards that operate like this or is yours (...) (22 years ago, 19-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Anyone for Chess? —Andy Clapham
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| | | | (...) I remember seeing one about 10 years ago, but I don't think it was very popular because of the speed and accracy. I beleive it used a touch sensor grid to detect moves, rather than scanning the board for changes. To move pieces out of the way, (...) (22 years ago, 20-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Anyone for Chess? —Chris Magno
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| | | | Andy: (...) Yep, many years ago I wanted a "new" chess board. It did what your RCX robot does. It was called Phantom Chess -- 6100 by Milton Bradly. Even then it was very expensive. (about $1200 CAN) a link is here: (URL) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Anyone for Chess? —Andy Clapham
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| | | | (...) Fantastic - Thanks for the link! Do you own one? The Phantom robot really moves quickly doensn't it - I suppose that's the advantage of dedicated engineering over Lego. After a quick web search (and lots of Andrew Lloyd Webber references) I (...) (22 years ago, 22-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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