You gotta see this.
Posted: 10 Jul 2010, 18:03
http://slashdot.org/story/10/07/10/1455 ... Chessboard
Here's the video:
"A chess-playing German tinkerer has contrived (and made a video of) an amazing contraption that plugs real chess pieces into the freechess.org server using a 20W LED projector and an old webcam to read moves on a projected chessboard."
Here's the video: