An Arduino Mega drives the system ... spent a little bit of time making the cabinet and visible parts look nice. Chess is a civilized game and unfinished parts would be out-of-place.

The augmented board runs micro-Max source code, enabling chess logic to be executed on an Arduino Mega with room for control functions for a 6DOF robotic arm. The setup uses magnetic pieces ...

I'm a sucker for chess technology stories, so I've been meaning to flag this one up for a while - the Arduino team have taken a look at the history of chess machines - in various forms of automation ...