Design and implementation of electronic chess set

This paper describes the design and implementation of chess set using electronic circuits and MATLAB software for educational purpose. Nowadays, many children are addicted on the computer games, and tend to neglect the traditional games like chess game. The electronic chess set is designed in order to attract the interest of the children on the chess game. Besides that, the game provides some basic rules for beginner. These rules are the placement of the chess pieces for the opening of the chess game and the rule of chess pieces' movement during the chess game. In order to increase the number of input or output pins of the Arduino microcontroller, the cascade encoder, multiplexer and shift register are designed. The placement and the type of the chess piece is detected using infrared light-emitting diode and photodiode with the aid of cascade encoder and multiplexer, whereas the valid destinations of the current chess piece are displayed using light-emitting diode with the aid of cascade shift register. The real situation of the chess game is also displayed on the computer screen using graphical user interface (GUI). The project achieved its objectives by demonstrating the capability to detect the position and type of chess piece, and displaying the real situation of the chess game on the computer screen via GUI.