All the stories tagged with: chess
Talking Chess Set makes for a neat Christmas gift
12/08/2010, Feeling flush and are not quite sure on what to get for your brainy loved one this Christmas? Perhaps you might want to check out Barbara Kruger’s talking chess set. Yes sir, if you think that your home is too [...]
Computer Beats Human for First Time at Japanese Chess
10/12/2010, While IBM’s Deep Blue computer had beaten its first human, Gary Kasparov, in 1997 at a game of Western chess, thus far no computer had been able to beat a computer at the more complicated game of shogi, otherwise known [...]
Electric chess set lights up your day
08/12/2010, Benrt Blake, architect, design consultant and competitive chess player has come up with a pretty unique chess set that has never been seen before. This electric chess set will rely on a plethora of plug bases, sockets, bulbs and ceramic [...]
DIY Internet Chess Board
07/12/2010, While it’s quite easy to setup an online game of chess with your friend who lives far away, sometimes you just want to be able to play with physical chess pieces instead, and that’s where this DIY chess table that [...]
DIY: Chess-playing Robotic Arm
06/29/2010, Want to play chess with your friend who’s in another country, but still want to enjoy the fun of using a real chess board? If you had this DIY chess robot, things would be a lot more fun, as it’s [...]
Robot chess opponent
04/15/2010, Hopefully Dennis who is playing with a a robotic arm as his chess opponent has not input the necessary code to have the arm reach over and choke the life out of him should he win the match. The Lynxmotion [...]
LED Chess Set
04/10/2010, Check out this conceptual LED Chess Set that features the kind of chess that Chinese folks play, where it replaces runes and poggles with LEDs instead. The foldable silica gel chessboard will roll up for easy portability, and just in [...]
