A chess board consists of eight rows and eight columns ... The ultimate goal of the game is to check or checkmate the other King. It happens when the King gets locked in a position to be captured ...

A recorded voice would say check or mate (in Spanish ... anyway. Automatic chess boards are fairly common now, but amazing for the early 1900s. Or, you can skip the board and go 100% computerized ...

which is also tasked with reading button inputs from the board’s side panel. The Nano is interfaced with a Raspberry Pi, which is the true brains of the operation. The Pi handles chess tasks ...