Open Chess project delivers electric shocks for bad moves and costs $22 versus $600 commercial smart boards through open-source DIY design.

An engineer has gone viral after creating a ruthless version of chess that literally punishes players with electric shocks ...

Heisler’s Skinner box-esque chess set was inspired by similarly masochistic DIY projects like an electrified keyboard, and gets its voltage from a reconfigured TENS unit. Short for Transcutaneous ...

We had a chance to review the GoChess Lite, an electronic chess board designed to teach, compete, and bring a modern style to chess ...

Over the last few centuries, behavioral psychologists have documented all kinds of ways of modifying our actions and the ...

As the Taser Chess journey concludes, a year after it began, we watch EiH returning to Union Square. He tries to test the board on the hustlers, who want absolutely no part of it, so eventually he ...

Throughout the years, chess sets have been developed to match the evolution of the game of chess itself. In the past, sets ...

There are many chess robots, most of which require the human player to move the opposing pieces themselves, or have a built-in mechanism that can slide the opposing pieces around to their new ...

My chess board collects dust at home. It’s a game I have loved playing ever since my father taught it to me at a young age, but over the past few years, it has been tough finding opponents within my ...

Cameron Crawford thought he had seen it before. There was the puzzle scare in March 2020. When the weather got better, he ran out of kites. Then there was a Pokemon card gold rush that left his ...