Regium: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence

@Lichess Thanks for the explanation that you need a bot:enabled account to be able to use that kind of a board, so the overpriced 3letter e-boards also can only be used with a bot account?

That clears out much of the problems somebody might encounter with a software for an e-board, they would have to mimick a mouse gesture and the browser behaviour or could get recognized as a bot.

Regarding the electromagnets (solenoids) they could be bought 1$ for a 10mm one in low quantities so that one is not an issue - if it comes out as a deception i will built one on on my own :)

Is there anybody who saw the pieces before? Is this a wide known design? I recall that i have seen those pieces on this YT account, the guy seems to have invented them based on the 1950 dubrownik design. Jonas is quite sarcastic, but i think he is not fooling more than the advertisement companies allow to fool people at least he is sarcastic with this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U48-8o3Manc And BCE is better as the rook has 5 not 6 turrets :) and a queen has 7 crown spikes instead of 8.

Seems fake to me. I believed it at first. :(

Oh, the support bubble to hide the guy putting his arm under the table is awfully clever...

@Mi5ter_t The pieces as far as I can tell are Ulbrich set: www.thechessempire.com/ulbrich-series-3-75-chess-pieces.html

@Talisy Despite red flags, I want to believe it and would love to see it; but testimonials like, "It's perfect" fail to convince me.

@Talisy #25
"In case the first video is not real, something that I doubt but I cannot demonstrate it, it could have an explanation, let's not forget that it is a Kickstarter project, this means that it is an evolving prototype, maybe in the first video the e-Board was not as evolved as in the second video. The important thing is that, contrary to what TCF_Namelecc says, I think that with the second video they have gained the credibility they needed, for me it is definitive."

#17 -
"Wow, I just watched the YouTube video and it's remarkable how, no matter how long the demonstrator takes to retract his hand after a move -- sometimes stopping to table a piece, sometimes pulling away immediately -- the board starts moving pieces at the very moment his hand and its shadow are out of frame, and finishes just before they come back in."

So if the first video is fake, then what you're saying is that after people realized that the board was fake (because of the first video), Regium immediately made an actual board that works. They could have just waited until they produced a single board that actually worked, instead of rushing the process and making a fake video, and a (second) real video (assuming that you're right).

They can't just not have a real board, and when once everyone realizes it's a scam, suddenly create a board that works. They'd have to be geniuses (and last second geniuses at that). If they had the board, then they would have just used it in the first video...?

Talisy seems like an alt account for many reasons, but I'll use numbers.

"why if someone has a different opinion is suspicious?" #28
translates to:
"Why, because if someone with a different opinion is suspicious?"

1. Joined 6 days ago (February 17, 2020) Today is 2/22/2020
2. Only played 5 games (almost as if they just wanted to prove that they were a real player) Seems like company standards: 5 games, 10 games, 15 games, so on...
3. Played the fastest time modes there were. Props for putting effort into actually winning some though.
4. Did it all in one day.
5. Does nothing on lichess for like 5 days, then immediately comes back, just to post on the new forum about Regium. (Still doesn't play any more games.)
6. Calls knights "horses". "I am a photographer, and the light created on the horse when the queen passes could be a lens effect." (#22) Calls into his/her legitimacy as a chess player (but to be fair, they called themselves a photographer).

Talisy either is probably an alt, or some person from Regium.
Most newbies don't join lichess, then immediately go to bullet. (Especially with low rating, because if you play outside irl chess, then there usually aren't that many bullet games). Plus, he/she starts posting in the forum on their second day on lichess.

Talisy, if you reveal your main (if you have one) then you would be more believable, but still probably get banned. gl

@chesslegendmaster Talisy already got called out by thibault for being a sockpuppet of regium.

If the product is real, why taking so much time to answer the question of skeptical people with insults? This is happening in other sites too.

The more I'm into the subject, the more it looks suspicious. Take a look that in the first video the pieces take a while until moving (the precise time for the shadows go away), while in the second video the pieces move much faster. The timing is completely different between the first and the second video. That's a bit weird.

They literally just need to call up a famous chess personality, commentator or player that we all trust, like Jan Gustafsson, Anna Rudolf, Peter Svidler, or any top GM and demonstrate the board with them there in the room, and video it and we will all believe that. Somehow I don't think that is likely to happen.