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by waldfee 1818 days ago
there are modern products in this niche, and there is huge interest. the market certainly seems to be there (regium tried to defraud people for almost a million dollars i believe was the kickstarter sum before they got shut down).

there is squareoff [0], with new products currently in development (swap / neo)

then there was regium, an elaborate scam on kickstarter [1]

now there is phantom [2], which hopefully is not a scam. they at least posted some engineering details on hackaday [3]

squareoff has chess.com support, hopefully with lichess support coming (they are promising it, but has not yet happend). phantom claims working lichess support and to work on chess.com support

[0] https://squareoffnow.com

[1] https://www.chess.com/news/view/update-on-regium-chess

[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wondersubstance/phantom...

[3] https://hackaday.io/project/179268

1 comments

Phantom is an elegant little system. They want to sell it for $670, which is a bit high, but will probably sell.
If it works I'll get two. Miss playing chess with my old roommate from college. Online works, but it would be too cool to have it sitting still on my desk only to get distracted from work by a piece moving.

The app seems a bit optimistic though.

What's your concern with the app? Looks pretty standard as far as chess goes, other than causing pieces to move on board.