Regium: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence

People have pointed out lots of evidence for digital editing of the first video.

For those still wondering about the second (FAQ) video, please check out this reddit thread, especially c00ty825's comment: www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/f7yqtx/regium_extraordinary_claims_require_extraordinary/fiih3oz/

The tl;dr is that the pieces were likely moved from below using magnets and some kind of slide rail (like this: www.haefele.de/prod-live/static/WFS/Haefele-HDE-Site/-/Haefele/de_DE/images/default/laufschiene-fuer-linearfuehrung-37-mm-tragkraft-bis-120-kg_421.85.110_421.85.125_x/01339143_0.jpg but thinner) to guarantee a smooth and exact movement.

Supporting evidence:

- We don't see the underside of the board while the pieces are moving, in fact the cameraman gets super close to the board at that point for no apparent reason.

- The random pop-up was likely put there to hide an assistant (or the cameraman himself) moving his arm under the board. (I'd suggest that the finger in the new explanation video is CGI, still hiding what was *actually* visible in the original take.)

- The presenter goes through a lot of seemingly unnecessary effort at the end to very slowly remove the pieces from the board and the board from the table. Presumably this is done to show that nothing is hiding under the glass, supporting the illusion.

- None of the automatic move paths intersect with each other.

- The only wide shot we get of an automatic move is b2-b4 at the beginning. However, at that point the camera is still static, so this move was likely done with CGI like in the first video. (That is, in reality the pawn was always on b4 and a different board was overlaid.)

As for the new third video, everything that is shown is likely just a re-edit of the previous videos trying to hide lies with more lies. If they actually wanted to dispel the doubts voiced here and elsewhere, they could shoot a new quick video showing automatic movement from several angles at the same time. Or finally go with what everybody has been asking for: a live presentation with a chess professional or a representative from one of the big chess sites.

Of course, none of that will happen because this board is a fairy tale.

@Mi5ter_t actually, you don't need superconducting materials to build a "Magnetically Levitated Planar Positioner" (that's how the technique is called).

For reference, have a look at this paper and the references included: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7536637
Here is a video, showing it in action: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxhath5hrJg

However, as far as I can see, those setups are far from being miniaturized as such they could be used in a chessboard.

I find it unlikely that there is some "mechanical" solution there.

They shown that they are good at video editing, now they also have to find a good "mechanical engineer".
Also the trajectory characteristics are very similar in older CGI videos and new "human moves a magnet", that would be very hard to achieve.

The board is also pretty thick, it's really not possible to have good magnetic grip at that distance for smooth transition.

So I'm still sure there's no strings, no magnets, no air blowing, no small wheels and no other mechanical way to move pieces.
As I said earlier, it's not easy to repeat that smooth trajectory with fast "easing out" even with bare hand, not even talking about some remote controlled device.

Although with the latest idea (human moving the pieces), there are some (pretty unrealistic) possibilities, like shooting the same board twice with exact camera trajectory.

Also "currently the hardware is very advanced, between 65% and 70%" is not what engineer would say.
That precision of project progress estimation doesn't really exist in real world.
And even when it's done, it's more natural to say "it's 65% done" rather than "it's between 65% and 70% done".

@spielsocke wow - thats an interesting piece of precision technique - thank you for that. I only wanted to tell not to get into deep requirements, just try to keep sth simple when designing. I was thinking about this kind of standard temperature levitation:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=meQ11-J32P0

(the puling action stops when the thing being attrackted reaches particular height (ceiling is tested via a led Receiver Transmitter)

I think the pure CGI/VFX theory is more likely but the parody video where the pieces are moved with dental floss is actually not ridiculous at all. I find the piece movement actually quite convincing and with a little post processing to erase the strings it could be made to look even more real. Certainly more practical than having a magnet under the table.

2 hours boys till the big reveal. That parody lol I can’t ...killing me bro lol best part was the intro music lol

it would need an rfid reader in every square as well as the 9 electromagnets and as the person on facebook asked, how do they read the rfid tag through the interference of the iron and electromagnets.

Sadly, that parody video seems to be fake too. Those dental floss strings look too good to be true. They were probably added digitally in post processing.

Well, i dont care for all this e-board stuff, but thanks for the link to www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/ . Now i have something 1984 ish to send my mum (because she is the only one impressed by my stuff). Also, while informing me about this, i learned about the interesting developments happening in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_image_synthesis Thanks for these infos, AI is cool. It will blow us all up, but it is cool.