Chess Computers Improve Since 90s
The AlphaGo computer has been in the news recently for beating the top Go player in the world in four out of five games. This evolution in computing is a giant leap from the 90s when computers were still struggling to beat humans at chess. The landscape has indeed changed, as [Folkert] shows us with his chess computer based on a Raspberry Pi 3 and (by his own admission) too many LEDs.
The entire build is housed inside a chess board with real pieces (presumably to aid the human player) and an LED on every square. When the human makes …read more
