Regium: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence

@Chris1976 they will probably lap this stuff up, but the Daily Mail is a stain on journalism everywhere

For those who want to link to it, amusingly enough, Regium's web page is still available (minus the team photos): www.regiumchess.com/index.html

Here it is:

web.archive.org/web/20200203153707/https://regiumchess.com/de/about.html

Can someone please just invent such an automatic e-board already? Clearly MASSIVE interest!
('Square Off' not quite there in terms of speed, size or elegance)

I will buy one if knights can actually jump over the other pieces, as they should. I don't know, maybe use magnetic levitation, springs, or mini drones.

A knight shuffling over the board, squeezing through pawns, is a rather pathetic sight (; .

Alright. Time to get serious since Kickstarter doesn't take action. It is time to file a report with the FTC: www.ftc.gov/contact

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@RicitosDeOro Square Off's 2nd generation boards look interesting. They come in July. They look faster.

@Panagrellus an e-board which comes with its own drone for knight-carrying duties would be fun. I'd love to see a communication program where the board gets a request for a knight move like Nc3 and can forward it on to the drone: "could you pick up that knight on b1 and place it on c3?".

Not here to discuss the scam or not scam and this information is not intended to support either side of the discussion -- the idea of this design for an automated chess board is very cool, check out this real application testing with electromagnets: youtu.be/AhS_2gU1qW0

Apparently you can advertise in New in Chess magazine without paying up front. If regium were able to place the ad without paying I think the chances of New in Chess getting paid is the same as regium being legitimate.