![]() So, a competition chess board should be at least 50cm x 50cm. FIDE (World Chess Federation) states that the size of a square should be between 5 to 6 cm. There are a myriad of sizes to choose from. This one was a trickier subject than I first thought. So, now what? Where do I start? How do I design this thing? The best I've found, and probably the only one worth looking at, was more than 3000$. Well, it turns out there are very capable products out there. I'm an engineer alright, and I like building things, but if the product I want to build is already on the market and it's cheap enough, I'd rather buy it than spend a lot of time and money re-inventing the wheel. But before starting any actual work, I did some research to see if I could buy such a chess board. These were a real pain for her to learn how to properly move.Īs a consequence, the engineer in me started to contemplate at building a physical chess board that could help kids learn easier and, of course, be capable enough to even play against it. I realised that it would be much easier for her if she could actually have a chess board that showed her the allowed moves for each chessman. Well, about 6 years ago I became a father and, when my kid was about 4 and a half years old, I started to teach her how to play chess. So, who needs a physical chess board anymore? Right? Nowadays, you can even play on your smartphone. Then computers started to evolve and you could play against the computer, which was great. When I was a kid I used to play on my own because neither my father nor my sister wanted, or had time, to play with me. ![]() The idea for building an electronic chess board, that you could actually play with, came to me a long time ago. ![]() But, before you go further, you might have a look at the last section, where I've put some demos, so that you have an idea what the end result looks like! This is going to be a very long tutorial.
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