Hi all! I'm not sure why this video is getting so many views recently, but I'm glad you're here. This was an early prototype for a class project. For the curious, here are some quick design details: The player moves were detected using hall effect sensors and magnets embedded in each piece. The board's moves were handled by a 2-axis movement system much like what you'll find in 3D printers or CNC machines. The pieces were picked up using a magnet attached to a servo on the carriage. A RPi 3 was used to process moves and send them over WiFi to a simple web server, which let multiple people with boards play each other remotely, play against opponents on Lichess, or play against Stockfish. As you can probably tell, there were a bunch of issues with this early design. Some of them, like the pawn sticking to the knight and undetected moves, were fixed by making the board larger (more space between pieces), the pieces heavier, and the magnets stronger. Piece captures were handled better by first moving the captured piece off to the side of the board. Castling was done by moving the rook halfway off the board and sliding it behind the king. There were a bunch of problems I never did manage to solve, however. For example, I never really handled promotion properly. In the case of the player, I always made the assumption that they promoted to a queen. RFID may be a possible solution to detect underpromotions. In the case of the board, the player would have to manually replace the piece. A possible solution for this may be to have the board slide the pawn off the board and pick up a major piece from a predetermined slot at the side of the board to replace it. The stepper motors were also really loud and slow, but I sadly never got the chance to upgrade them since I had run out of budget. If you guys are interested in something like this, you should check out the Square Off board. They sell an automatic chess board that looks super cool and is definitely infinitely more polished than this thing I made.
What if you created and extra side of the board, so you put the captured pieces so in case of pawn getting to the other side what if the computer recognizes where it is, and moves the pawn to the extra side of the board and replaces it with one of the pieces it wants I.e queen, bishop, knight, rook. Does the computer recognize what pieces are what?
You could actually get self contained computer chessboards that did just that. I had some Ivan the Terrible board in 2006 or something that would castle twice.
@@somerandomuser6808 I tribute summon Jack's Knight in attack position. GO! Jack's Knight attack his Kuribo and destroy his life points! Dedededededing.... XD
I dunno about "immediate" but quiet could be easily done. This is just a proof of concept but he could write the program so it always homes to the geometric center of the computer-controlled pieces. That way it would never have to travel more than about 5-6 squares (linear) to start the movement.
Man just does the coding, the robotics, the payments by his own, and still made some free entertainment for us. . . My respect is greatly upon you ヾ(＾-＾)ノ
that's what I though so too, if a piece has been eliminated, make it drop down, than into the piece cemetery; than drop the piece that is going to eliminate, align it upright, bring it back up to the square that the piece was eliminated.
Umm it won't be hard... If the machine would move the king two steps two the side it knows that the rook is supposed to be moved rest of the steps to the opposite side... Depends on coding.
While this is brilliant and more than anything i could ever hope or think of...what if you used 3d printing technology to lift the pieces from above to avoid knocking down pieces.... Similar to a bowling ball pin rack machine as well.
what i think is happening is that the wires on the sides of the board are used as a coordinate grid when a piece touches or stops touching the wire it gets detected and you can find the X and Y coordinate on the board If you know the X and Y coordinates of a piece you can find out what piece moved by looking at what white piece stopped touching the grid and then set its coordinates to where it is now touching the grid With this method you can keep track of the pieces of the board A chess ai controlls the black pieces and since it uses a coordinate system the 'mover' can figure out where the piece is and move it to the desired location there is a digital version of the board where the ai knows whats happening and it sends the signal to the mover to move a specific piece to a specific locatiln
Rallaren Klementsson grandmasters sometimes play into the fried liver, the reason it isn't played at high levels of not because it's bad for black but because if you know theory black equalizes pretty fast, also for lower-rated players the traxler is pretty good.
Pretty impressive for a class project. I’d imagine all the effor and hours going through the prototype and building it. I believe there were a couple of “magic” chess boards that were in the market.
This showed up on my front page after I watched a bunch of chess videos (I don’t play btw.) And I thoroughly enjoyed it! Throughout my education I’ve taken too many embedded system classes than I’d like to admit, as well as building too many projects like this. I know for sure that you had a lot of fun building this. Great video, thanks for posting it.
Hi all! I'm not sure why this video is getting so many views recently, but I'm glad you're here.
This was an early prototype for a class project. For the curious, here are some quick design details: The player moves were detected using hall effect sensors and magnets embedded in each piece. The board's moves were handled by a 2-axis movement system much like what you'll find in 3D printers or CNC machines. The pieces were picked up using a magnet attached to a servo on the carriage. A RPi 3 was used to process moves and send them over WiFi to a simple web server, which let multiple people with boards play each other remotely, play against opponents on Lichess, or play against Stockfish.
As you can probably tell, there were a bunch of issues with this early design. Some of them, like the pawn sticking to the knight and undetected moves, were fixed by making the board larger (more space between pieces), the pieces heavier, and the magnets stronger. Piece captures were handled better by first moving the captured piece off to the side of the board. Castling was done by moving the rook halfway off the board and sliding it behind the king.
There were a bunch of problems I never did manage to solve, however. For example, I never really handled promotion properly. In the case of the player, I always made the assumption that they promoted to a queen. RFID may be a possible solution to detect underpromotions. In the case of the board, the player would have to manually replace the piece. A possible solution for this may be to have the board slide the pawn off the board and pick up a major piece from a predetermined slot at the side of the board to replace it. The stepper motors were also really loud and slow, but I sadly never got the chance to upgrade them since I had run out of budget.
If you guys are interested in something like this, you should check out the Square Off board. They sell an automatic chess board that looks super cool and is definitely infinitely more polished than this thing I made.
Dang you are cool ngl I really understood everything you said here
Quarantine has us playing a lot of chess
In what language did you program this in?
Here before this video gets blowed up even more.
What if you created and extra side of the board, so you put the captured pieces so in case of pawn getting to the other side what if the computer recognizes where it is, and moves the pawn to the extra side of the board and replaces it with one of the pieces it wants I.e queen, bishop, knight, rook. Does the computer recognize what pieces are what?
Man : plays illegal move
Robot : panik
*Robot: Take over the world
@DMart what?
You could actually get self contained computer chessboards that did just that. I had some Ivan the Terrible board in 2006 or something that would castle twice.
@@dudeg4ming
ZA WARUDO
Vidit Gujarati is not harm by this comment🤣🤣🤣
Who would've thought there's friendly fire on chess
It not a friendly fire its a piece sacrifice
It's a tribute summon
Eric Rosen be like
*"I tribute my Queen!"*
_"Checkmate"_
@@guilhermedesouza3628 we not talking about sacrifices
@@somerandomuser6808 I tribute summon Jack's Knight in attack position. GO! Jack's Knight attack his Kuribo and destroy his life points! Dedededededing.... XD
Man: spends time in thinking
Robot: spends time in moving
😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
oh, I thought it will be boring to play with this robot since it's slow...but no, we often take some seconds to move, so does robot?
@@discontinued645 actually at first even I thought the same 😂😂
@@sonashisworld7290 😁
I like that the robot's default position is as far away from its pieces as physically possible.
Presumably it can play white too
@@deoxal7947I feel it would make the most sense to put the robot on whichever side that it’s playing. Or put the pieces on the side of the robot
White starts first. I don't think the robot can move itself. That's probably why
LOL
Nobody :
Bishop : Move out of the way peasants
lmao, that knight kill
HAHAHAHA
cold-hearted bishop be like:
r/uselessnobody
Hahahahhahahaahhahahah
when you are very lonely guy but also a genius guy at the same time
@@mohdasadqureshi6906 🤣🤣🤣
But also you play pawn a3
Yes
Lonely as well
Also need some money to build this
1:08 I love how he brings backup
😂😂😂😂
😂😂
Lmao
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lmao
I love this so much.
And the robot knocking everything over makes it even better.
AI robots recklessly knocking shit over will never not be funny
@@SyenPie you will never understand
@@randomcloudcontent its double negative it means it is
@@randomcloudcontentyou re the one who did not understand
me: trying to play the game silently
Chess Board: BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Lmao it is really annoying😂😂
who doing that ?!?!
GG
@@cugulibuguli8140 the board dumbass
@@user-qn7fc9hm4b
oh wow you're so intelligent I can't comprehend anything. 👏
I can't believe that this is just a prototype for a class project.
That's impressive! Ngl!
Crazy
ruclips.net/video/HI5G3auIfKg/видео.html
yay finally a guy that reads what he wrote
I have not expect that it's for class project
Human: i will carefully place my pawn on the square
Machine: haha bishop go brrr
=))))))))))))))))))
Use math method y=x for bishop move
Amazing Comment lol
@@nabil5129 /
😂😂😂😂😂
I can't even start to explain to non tech guys the amount of work he has put into it.
Try us. Give us a full explanation
Bata de
You don’t have to know anything about technology to know this must’ve taken months if not at least a year….. get off your high horse lol
@@patstaysuckafreeboss8006 nah bro he cant even begin to explain to us non tech peasants bro. just know he knows we dont know bro
I bet those non tech peasants think that he made this in a day am I right
Nobody:
Black: EXCUSE ME PARDON ME COMING THROUGH
pardon me commenting through
pardon me commenting through
pardon me commenting through
This is what spamming fells like
This is what spamming fells like
it's all game till the bot starts knocking down pieces
Noice
lol k
@@maiwang2040 nice touhou reference
I'm curious about how the robot castling
Lmfaooo
Would probably use the edges of the squares like it does for the knight
Read the pinned comment
it simply dont
Shut up
Why are people calling this a bad design? This is clearly a simple idea that he wanted to try out.
just need Pathfinder algorithm
It sucks lol
@@bawseeeee602 lets see you make a working automatic chess board??
@@Darkcamera45 already done it
@@bawseeeee602 ok make a video I’m genuinely curious what yours looks like
Why does it go back to white side when it only moves black?
Bad design
I believe is because it scan all the board to make a decision
@@JuanDavid-zr7cv nope it detects pieces with the cable
so the "computer" can play both sides
@@BLUc18 simple design*
Not so heavy on calculations.
When you're such a introvert, you design a Automatic Chess Board so you play chest with yourself
Me too
I love playing chest 😀
Chest nehi chess hota hein😂😂😂
@@itssoumo2.040 🤣😂
@@itssoumo2.040 wahi to chest😂😂
Chest 😂
*1:10** BRO'S MAKING ILLEGAL MOVE!!* ♟️❌
Why are british people so good at chess?
Their queen never dies
edit : “ queen is gone from our sight, but never from our hearts.”
😂🤣
Underated comment lmfao
Her age and you likes are same
forgot the king heh?- Probably said by the americans
WAR CRIMIN QUEEN
This would be so trippy if the board was silent and made immediate movements. You'd have a game of wizard's chess!
intermediate?
I dunno about "immediate" but quiet could be easily done. This is just a proof of concept but he could write the program so it always homes to the geometric center of the computer-controlled pieces. That way it would never have to travel more than about 5-6 squares (linear) to start the movement.
It could certainly be much quicker as well, by adding faster motors and one on each side. Damn this could be very cool.
Harry Potter
@@hylianheadache5856 then it loses accuracy because fast movement could lead to collision with other pieces
So this is how it feels like to play games against your printer 🖨
😂
Dude that horse + bishop move litterally destroyed his tower. This human is done
I actually think this is a brilliant idea and could potentially sell well
@@teraks0498 that is exactly how I imagined it!
You can simply download an app
@@oksowhat physical chess feels different
@@teraks0498 that’s an overpriced fad version that’s incredibly late to the party. Magnet movers and robo arm boards have existed since the 90s.
Absolutely
Mother: you should go make a friend
Kid: but I already have a Friend
Friend at home:
Now we wait for this to blow up.
Time to contribute a like.
atleast this friend wont betray or cheat on you or anything
This is actually a pretty creative comment ngl
Man just does the coding, the robotics, the payments by his own, and still made some free entertainment for us. . . My respect is greatly upon you ヾ(＾-＾)ノ
I like that (☞ ಠ_ಠ)☞ Yo!
Jus rich*
Technically it's not free entertainment
Literally bro
@@elonmusk1059 Technically it is because I don't think this video is monetized
With some improvements, you could definitely make this one of the best automated chess boards I've seen so far.
The RUclips algorithm has presented me with literal Gold!
There are better board than this
this is what we actually want
*figurative gold
Cool, where is it? How pure is it? What volume are speaking.
I thought that you've gotten it through your skull of what's figurative and what's literal!
2019 : automatic chess board
2021 : automatic cars
2077: automatic thinking AI inserted in heads replacing brains also it's so compact
Hi 8d vibez remember me
2077 : cyberpunk
🤣🤣
That would be cool
At first i was thinking that the AI moving the Knight would be a problem... then it moved the Bishop
"Hello everyone, this is YOUR Daily Dose of Internet"
Was this video actually added?
@@alexmax451 no
Should be
I' bored of him, the contents over-uploaded to the point it is no more sounds amazing and iconic as it used to be.
@@IDMYM8 what the hell is he gonna upload now a dogshit minecraft let Play?
Bishop : They see me rollin'
They hatin'
Patrolling and tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty
Bro, that's incredible, awsome, I hope you never give up
I also hope that he's never gonna let you down
@@masamigameon I hope he never runs around
I also hope that he never desert you
I hope he'll never make you cry
I hope he's never say "goodbye"
something that makes them go under the board and then up like a lift would be super cool, would avoid physical contact when moving or attacking pieces
that's what I though so too, if a piece has been eliminated, make it drop down, than into the piece cemetery; than drop the piece that is going to eliminate, align it upright, bring it back up to the square that the piece was eliminated.
This world needs more ppl like you
ruclips.net/video/HI5G3auIfKg/видео.html
For that this world needs different school and education, but there is no money for that cause you know where all the money is
Day 109: and I finally completed the match
Did u win?
@@angelgarciagarrido369 yeah that was a short game
I hope it wasn't draw
me after every robot move: mhmmmm... very good move
His enemy was using stockfish,report it
Imagine castling there!!
I think machine would castle at just the next move.
*Disaster*
Umm it won't be hard... If the machine would move the king two steps two the side it knows that the rook is supposed to be moved rest of the steps to the opposite side... Depends on coding.
ruclips.net/video/qS9V2ZWekBM/видео.html
Robot goes. *PANIK*
Nobody:
Machine: *MMMMMMMMMMMM* *EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHH*
Lmao
He actually got fried livered by a automatic chessboard, what a legend.
"Tell him to play bullet chess”
Human: Move the chess carefully
A.I: COMING THROUGH
Human: Very outstanding move
My friend: How lonely are you?
Me:
@Jesus Christ good question
😂
Knight : exists
Bishop: i have power of 4 knights.
1:08 Le bishop : this is my new root 😎
The damn IA is still playing faster than my father :'(
at least you have one
Lma9
@@lks19 F
what the hell is an IA?
@@archersd maybe he just dosent know that its AI or he is dumb to write it wantedly!
Fun fact, the note the motor makes when moving a piece is a B
thank
Actually it makes 2 notes
While moving horizontal and vertical
Bb
Pretty sure it's a Bb, but I could be wrong. :
B flat.
While this is brilliant and more than anything i could ever hope or think of...what if you used 3d printing technology to lift the pieces from above to avoid knocking down pieces.... Similar to a bowling ball pin rack machine as well.
So you could play while looking around a gantry? Screw that.
October 2023 everyone??
Could you please make a video explaining the engineering behind this (design, code, mechatronics). Thanks for sharing this interesting project!
what i think is happening is that the wires on the sides of the board are used as a coordinate grid
when a piece touches or stops touching the wire it gets detected and you can find the X and Y coordinate on the board
If you know the X and Y coordinates of a piece you can find out what piece moved by looking at what white piece stopped touching the grid and then set its coordinates to where it is now touching the grid
With this method you can keep track of the pieces of the board
A chess ai controlls the black pieces and since it uses a coordinate system the 'mover' can figure out where the piece is and move it to the desired location
there is a digital version of the board where the ai knows whats happening and it sends the signal to the mover to move a specific piece to a specific locatiln
The guy has advance thoughts, He did this prior quarantine so he wont get bored and insane...
Chess in his windows pc: *questions it's existence*
Me: bae, don't be noisy, your parents are gonna hear us
my gf:
When you have no friends and you're a genius lol
Cool vid, but did you just play into fried liver?
Fried liver is when white attacks so it resembles it. I recommend looking at the traxler counterattack btw. Its deadly
Fried liver needs both white and black to play bad chess
@@robertdiers1356 I saw that from Gotham chess it’s very deadly
@@klover4107 if you know traxler, you can "trick" fired livering noob to get destroyed
Rallaren Klementsson grandmasters sometimes play into the fried liver, the reason it isn't played at high levels of not because it's bad for black but because if you know theory black equalizes pretty fast, also for lower-rated players the traxler is pretty good.
Hikaru: Mom can we get expensive auto chess board?
Mom: we already have expensive auto chess board at home
Expensive chess board at home:
you are clearly an amateur memer because that isn’t how your meant to say it. something bad is meant to be at home, not something good.
@@archersd Yeah I thought the same...
This comment is eradicating my bones
Roblox
19 dollqr fartnite card
Nobody:
King: *HEY PUT THAT DOWN!!!*
Bishop: *why send one every move in the battlefield if you can send two*
the weakness is that he cant make the knight fly
Are you telling me this is exactly like wizard's chess?
Yes, this is exactly like wizard's chess
ruclips.net/video/HI5G3auIfKg/видео.html
0:20 I'm not the only one who taught that the robot is gonna copy the exact move and piece but in different locations.
Sry buddy you were the only one
@zainbastin5365😂
Black pawn: nothing afraids me
but that thing *points at the bishop*
it scares me
bro youtube recommended me in 2024 :skull:
RUclips: Let's recommend this in 2021
Pawns sliding around as the other pieces move... that's hilarious.
When you're using old scanners out of boredom for a chess partner...
Psychiatrist: How lonely are you?
Me: ...
I want to see the queen moving from one end to the other, rampaging all the other chess pieces with it.
it seems that he wants to finish his own computer with his army
I was thinking this is amazing, but then it immediately became funny with all the pieces toppling over.
Plot twist: He moves the robot himself. So he actually really does playing alone.
Make two of them compete against each other
Everybody be like: black and white should change spot.
Yes agree
Why?
@@burt591 cause in that way the robot dont have to go to the other side of the world to make a move
@@joustin1656 Good point, thanks!
@@joustin1656 I think it maybe detects white’s position as it crosses?
Ron Weasly: That's Called wizards Chess
Lol underrated comment
by The Way heloooooo PotterHead
@@harshnaidu784 hellooo!!!
@@harshnaidu784 very
@@rushildhar2389 What is your age PotterHead
It noisy but it is faster than a normal human being
Yep
In that way, the match will end in 2030.
Pretty impressive for a class project. I’d imagine all the effor and hours going through the prototype and building it.
I believe there were a couple of “magic” chess boards that were in the market.
This is so cool but that's some crazy opening 🥴
Everybody: "Get out of the way, I'm black"
Me, a chess entusiast: "You just got wrecked by this robot!"
Wow that’s impressive it’s also quite funny that it knocks over its on pieces but it doesn’t matter very cool
He must be like: "damn this thing's overpowering me, time to stop recording"
It was so serious at first. "Wow that's neat it reacts."
Machine plows through everything
Dying laughing
That's incredibly awesome and very genius. I can't even play chess, but he made a robot that can play it
ruclips.net/video/qS9V2ZWekBM/видео.html XD
Bro the work, the code, hardware are amazing
He is an extraordinarily guy!
Hey I made one like this but it pulled a gun on me when I won
Really!
Amazing, unbelievable, prominent, dominant, outstanding move
🤣🤣🤣 that's awesome. I love how it just clears the pieces out of the way when it wants.
Better title: chess but you can play if your lonely and have no friends
And İRL
This will change many lives
Inventor: trying to get an A
The chess bot: *fork you*
Good thing that the robot is killing his troops more often
Now you'll never get bored playing alone.
whit this video we learned thar the knight actually doesnt jump over other pieces
Me: moving my piece
Computer: *robot arm starts moving* i'm about to end this mans whole career.
Omg this is so amazing how does this not have a million views.
Free chess game in every pc ever: look what they need to do to mimic a fraction of my power
For those who are too lazy to move a piece, but have the patiance to erange them...
This showed up on my front page after I watched a bunch of chess videos (I don’t play btw.) And I thoroughly enjoyed it! Throughout my education I’ve taken too many embedded system classes than I’d like to admit, as well as building too many projects like this. I know for sure that you had a lot of fun building this. Great video, thanks for posting it.
In Trash Taste Podcast's words, "This is just computer chess with more steps"
Glorious knight charge 0:45
Crushes the enemy militia
Mounted bandits 1:30
Your queen or your castle
The robot is playing the London