Regium: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence

Unsure if this has been noted (I do not have the constitution of the likes of @gamemonster2019 ) but @REGIUMCHESS appears to have been closed.

That spoof video is brilliant..but on a serious note,the Regium physics team have obviously found how to make a magnetic field only go in straight lines..no other piece even trembles as one one of it's colleagues glides past.
I sense Nobel...

I'm so glad lichess and chess.com are talking about this and warning people.
I was hyped when I first saw this, now, not anymore.
A bit odd, that you don't find anything about it on chess24. After they stood up to Agon a while ago, I expected them to investigate this too.

Meta name keywords on Regium source have been mentioned, it's also worth mentioning that those keywords differ depending on the language you chose. I don't know how common it is to do it, but it feels very odd to include so many chess player's names when nothing of them is represented on the website.

Well, I have my popcorn(actually nuts) ready for the kickstarter to launch and see the mess unfold(with a smiling, and a crying eye, because I still would love it to be true).

I don't get how u move the pieces without the electromagnets in them

The regium chess account has been closed on lichess but the kickstarter is still on

Regarding the "clarifications" video:
Usually when "unjustified kickstarters" are caught and try to find excuses, they are pretty silly.
In this case while I cannot say they are convincing, they keep doing good job in being reasonable.

So they have two points:
1. The knight had artifacts around it because they moved it a little in video editor.
Here they actually admit that they use video editing, to move a piece "a little". But if they can move it "a little", skillwise it's probably not much harder to move the piece "a lot". E.g. I don't know how to move something "a little" in a video, and if I learnt that, I'd probably was already half step from doing animations.

2. They claim that the bubble in a video was to hide a finger, and that it was taken on a phone camera.
There's not much to comment on that, but note that clearly the camera was static in the beginning of the video (on a tripod), and after that I'm not completely convinced with the way camera shakes, and with the transition between static and "handheld" camera.
But other than "it looks wrong", I cannot say anything sure in this case.

One more weirdness that I noticed is the reflection of curtains (in "FAQ" video) during 1:13-1:28. The reflection is kind of twitchy, similarly to what happens poor point tracking in 3D overlay. It may be that the table is shaky, but there are no other evidence that it's the case. Could someone look and confirm whether it looks fine?

For fun I subscribed to Regium's mailing list (using a disposable email address to be safe temp-mail.org ). I just want a front row seat for the kickstarter launch. Anyway, when you do that on their website it shows you the address of their office/HQ/Guru cave/whatever



I couldn't find the complete address anywhere else on their website or social media. It seems they are sharing office space with some attorney's office. Not sure this is evidence for anything, I just thought I'd share it here.

Wow - i just started to downloading the YT videos, i think they will disappear soon.

Lessons learned to an internet investigator

Web Archive - Way back machine
picture search - tineye.com or images search on you favourite web search
reading magic data in the file headers
curiousness :)

@gamemonster2019 - ferromagnetic materials, like carbon steel, can have an induced electromagnetic field - thats how it all works with "ferro" - magnets can attract and repulse each other, depending on the polarity - but also magnet can induce and opposing attracting magnetic field in the opposing ferromagnetic material.

You are right that i also think electromagnets should be in the pieces, and the plate should have some kind of a net and you would only need 34- ~100 cheap electromagnets not 800 but bringing electric energy into a moving object would be another part of a difficult story.

I am glad that we dont need superconducting materials in chess :) - and play at ( -174) C

@robbhy , according to facebook the company is called High Tech Dynamics, Inc

hightechdynamics.com/
www.bizapedia.com/fl/high-tech-dynamics-inc.html