It also enables you to challenge any chess player across the globe on the board. Summary:
Square Off is a completely automated device which enables the user to play chess against a computer and even against a human opponent present at any place in the world via the internet on a physical board. Novelty and Usefulness:
The idea is about not being conventional but to enhance the innovative approac
h towards man and machine interaction. It gives us a glimpse of the future of electronics technology which will be completely interactive and automated. It retains the physical feel of chess, which we do not get while playing on software. Now even blind people can play chess against a computer or a friend who is sitting in some other corner of the world on a physical board which was not possible before. It is a plug n play portable board which gives an enhanced user experience. Description of Innovation:
With the technology moving a step forward, the world now prefers an interactive and real platform instead of stand-alone software’s. For years board games have been played and hold a special importance in the society. Automating one such board game, ’Chess’ opens up a different avenue of implementing fiction into the reality of board games. Chess Automated has three levels of dexterity:
1. Man vs Machine
2. Player vs Distant online opponent
Chess Automated is an Interactive chessboard by which any person can play the game of chess on a physical board with the opponent's move completely automated. You can imagine this like the opponent's chess piece actually moving forward on the board to represent the moves played by the opponent. Artificial Intelligence: The computer would choose the best possible move (according to the difficulty level set by the user) for every move played by the user and would automatically play its move by dragging the chess piece over the board. On-line Game play: This feature enables two users sitting at different locations to play the game of chess via the internet, with the moves happening in real time on their respective physical chess boards. Also, one can connect the board to the internet while the opponent is playing on a GUI on our Android App using any Android Smartphone. Also supporting a social cause, the board enables blind to play against the computer. It includes magnetic Braille pieces, Braille coordinates, voice recaps of every move and textural contrasts between white and black spaces. The combination of all these factors allows the game to be utilized by those who suffer from visual impairments. This makes our project One of a Kind and it is entirely developed from scratch. Applications:
Training people to play chess, Cross country tournaments, Chess games can be recorded and be viewed live online. Reversely, Live tournaments can be viewed on the physical Boards instead of GUI / TV
Also, our target customers are chain of Hotels, Airport lounges, Cafes, International Schools, Yachts, Cruise, Aircrafts, etc.
