Autonomous Chess Playing Robot

Chess is an ancient strategy board game that is played on an 8x8 board. Although digital games have become attractive today, chess still retains its popularity in the onscreen version of the game. There has also been considerable development in the chess game engines to play against a human counterpart. The objective of this work is to integrate these chess engines with an actual board game experience and create an autonomous chess player. The system is designed around the use of an open source chess engine and a computer numeric control (CNC) controlled magnetic moving mechanism for moving around the chess pieces. The moves from the human counterpart are taken through an overhead computer vision system. The robot makes the game much more interactive and builds a link between the human and computer system.