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Automatic Chess Board Design

63 points| jstanley | 6 years ago |incoherency.co.uk | reply

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[+] Waterluvian|6 years ago|reply
You know those doctors office toys with the matrix of pins that you stick your face into? Imagine one of those as the board where the pieces "emerge" up out of it.
[+] lonelappde|6 years ago|reply
How do you make vertically concave pieces?
[+] marcosscriven|6 years ago|reply
Great write up - sad to hear of the Regium scam. Does anyone know who’s actually behind it?
[+] jstanley|6 years ago|reply
I don't know, but related: at least some of the faces on their about page were actually plucked straight out of thispersondoesnotexist.com!
[+] slaymaker1907|6 years ago|reply
One solution if inelegant would be to just move pieces out of the way then move them back in place. It should be possible to find a path using this mechanism though I’m not sure how many pieces you’d have to move in the worst case.