Chess is timeless, but automating it? That’s where the real magic begins. Enter [Tamerlan Goglichidze]’s Pi Board, an automated chess system that blends modern tech with age-old strategy.

The chess board is placed in such a way that the square on the far right end of the bottom row is white. The horizontal rows on the board are called rows, and vertical ones are called files.

The Spanish engineer’s machine really did play a modified end game. The chessboard was ... anyway. Automatic chess boards are fairly common now, but amazing for the early 1900s.