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ps - BTW: how did you calculate the moves of your robot arm to find the points to grab the pieces? look-up table or inverse kinematics? Inverse kinematics! I didn't know that there was a name for this, but I googled it and that's exactly what I did :) It's pretty much a matter of simple trigonometr...

doc-helmut: that's an awesome robot! The move evaluation algorithm you wrote is really nice too, and it's really cool the processing is done over 2 bricks. I think professional chess engines also have an opening book incorporated into them, but I have no idea how much memory it takes, and whether it...

Hi all, I've been active long ago on the old NXTasy forums, and I just made a robot that I wanted to share and I thought you guys might be interested. It's a chess playing robot, here it is: WYtYjKqd0_w The programming was done in MATLAB using the RWTH toolbox. It was a good opportunity to me to lea...