Low cost electronic chess set for chess tournament

Abstract

This paper introduced an electronic chess set which able to project the games in a computer during the chess tournament. In a competitive tournament, audiences are not allowed to watch the game too close with all chess players because they may disturb players' concentration. To solve this problem, a system that can automatically project the chess players' game is needed, and this could be done if the game is projected on a computer screen. With integration between the chessboard, microcontroller, chess clock and developed software, the result shows the possibility of having a low cost electronic chess set compared to the existing electronic chess set, which would be affordable to the most chess organizer.