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2.5D Chess Board
3-State Chess
Anarchist Chess
Any position Chess
Backwards chess
Checkmate Suit
Chess-A-Peek
chess conkers
Chess to music translator
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2.5D Chess Board

A chess board physically manifests all the available moves

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Chess programs can routinely display all the available moves for a piece.

This idea is about constructing a physical chess board that is able to do the same, perhaps using magnets or physical levers to raise and lower sections of the board, so that when a piece is selected, an actual set of channels is created demonstrating possible moves. Ramps maybe needed for knight moves.

—	theircompetitor, Nov 01 2011

Would multiple boards + robotic arm + software be considered cheating?

—	mouseposture, Nov 01 2011

The board could be underlit; the destination spaces of each possible move would light up in sequence.

—	Alterother, Nov 02 2011

I like it, pulsing lights

—	theircompetitor, Nov 05 2011

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