The Future of USB Chess
April 19th, 2007
I saw an article today about a USB chess board that tracks your pieces and allows you to see a virtual representation complete with analysis on your PC. Nothing hugely innovative there - perhaps there was no demand for this kind of thing 8 years ago when they were churning out steering wheels for racing sims.
However, it did make me wonder about the next generation of online chess. If you could get an external chess board to reproduce the moves of your opponent as well as your own, then you have an excellent product. My attempts at playing online chess on Yahoo and elsewhere over the years have always ended in alt-f4 after six minutes as soon as I lose my bishop. I like chess, but it’s not the same game when you’re clicking on a computer screen. My future USB super chess board will also project a hologram of your opponent and respond to voice controls and it will also make toast.
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