Lasers in chess

I was wondering if anyone could point me to a site that discusses laser use in a chess variant. If someone ever created such a variant I would be sure to buy it and maybe even invest in the company.

Please, no trolling or humorless mods will shut down the thread. Just serious replies on chess variants that employ lasers, and/or sharks.

Thanks in anticipation of your helpful feedback.

http://www.laserportraits.net/

I'll get back to you after I gas all my roach-baboons with acnes with my new can of ZyKlown B...

[my sides still hurt from laughing at that guy!]

Thanks for the link! I did find a girl I dated and the guy who beat me up in high school, but, alas, no chess to speak of. There must be some innovative genius out there somewhere thinking about this very problem; if only I knew how to reach him.

Using lasers with chess is far too advanced a topic given today's technology.  The current state-of-the-art is only able to use lasers with tic-tac-toe.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/Webcam_Tic_Tac_Toe.aspx

Anyone smart enough to solve lasers with chess will probably win a Nobel prize or similar award from Intel...

I'm not sure that I'm not walking into a joke I haven't spotted, but if its a serious question, check out the boardgame "Khet"

It's not quite "chess with lazers" but its a very chess-like game in which you move mirrored pieces around a board with the aim being to deflect a lazer beam around the board into the enemy "king". Its a pretty good game and surprised me in how similar to chess it felt when I played it.

you beginning to sound like window_7

I was going to suggest Khet, too.  It is a neat game that will sharpen you strategy skills.  For information go to:

http://yhst-1469288697390.stores.yahoo.net/kstlagaatspo.html

I had sooo much fun in that thread!

Yeah, you guys were on a roll

Strangely, I think the OP enjoyed it

I saw something like this once in TV Show "The Big Bang Theory".

American engineers are consumed with the challenge of adding lasers to chess. Of course there is the hoax that NASA put a laser on a chessboard in the sixties, but it has been proven that it was faked on a checkers board.

As far as incorporating sharks and lasers into chess, I look forward to a deviation on the variation...using blindfolds. Shouldn't there be alcohol involved too?

And of course, waffles.

Actually the variation I saw in the Show was not about lasers in the board.

They had a lot of security laser lines and the player had to cross the room without touching them. The chess board is on the other side and it is only alowed to make a move if they successfully cross the room.

It is like chessboxing, as in both the variation is not in the board but in a physical activity outside it.

Yes, so far we have only been able to get lasers within a close distance to a chess game. But to actually put a laser on a chess game involves many unproven technologies.

Are we talking about Emmanuel Laser, or Ed Laser? (confuse.gif)

 I have been unable to locate such a site up to now.  I'm sure it is only a matter of time until I track it down, but it's also a matter of coming up with the right name to look under.  Still, I couldn't help wondering if a taser couldn't be incorporated into the laser to give the game a little extra umph!

My first thought upon seeing this thread title was that it was an advertisement for Khet. (Ironically, I first learned about Khet from these forums.)