Tartan’s Gambit aims to integrate a physical experience with remote chess playing. We offer a solution consisting of a robotic gantry and web-based application. By simply placing the gantry over the board and pairing it with the lobby for your web game, you can play a physical game of chess remotely against other players.
Our system will be able to detect how chess pieces are moved, send an update to the web lobby, and have the opposing player see these updates on their screen. When a player receives a move, in addition to the virtual game board being updated, they will see our gantry take care of the movements and update the physical board.
Players are given a fair range of freedom in regards to how they want to use the gantry. Moving pieces can either be done physically or through the web app in which case the gantry will update the piece.