Regium: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence

For those who are here for the first time, and for those who would like to review the main points of the thread, I’ve gathered the posts which, in my humble opinion, contain the most important contributions. If I’m missing some, if there’s something redundant, or if someone doesn’t want their own post to have a reference here, I can always edit it and modify that. I’ve added a small description for each post about what I think it is apparently about. I hope some of you will find it useful!

Posts about appartent video fakery:
lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/blog-XlE48hEAACIAQv2F?page=10#92 Frame by frame analysis
lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/blog-XlE48hEAACIAQv2F?page=12#115 inconsistencies
lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/blog-XlE48hEAACIAQv2F?page=26#255 suspicious clip

Posts with interesting points and observations:
lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/blog-XlE48hEAACIAQv2F?page=6#55 price for all the electromagnets needed
lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/blog-XlE48hEAACIAQv2F?page=13#124 poor translations to German and Russian
lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/blog-XlE48hEAACIAQv2F?page=13#130 English translated from Spanish
lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/blog-XlE48hEAACIAQv2F?page=14#131 actual intentions with the money?
lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/blog-XlE48hEAACIAQv2F?page=32#316 means of reporting a project in Kickstarter

Thank you for making this awesome website. Also thank you for looking out for people. You have a lot more support than this shady company.

Gowez

#364

@Alphilinte I suppose they thought they could reach 100.000 or even more out of this. Selling the Regium board at 500 or even 600/700, you need 200 users to get at least 100.000. Is not that much.

I believe he thought of being able to sell 400 boards and get 200.000. So it was a fine investment to reach a lot or money in two months of hard work.

the_archbishop edited

#365

Instead of expensive video editing, can't it be plain illusionism? On the second video (the one where no flaws have been detected), the camera closes up during all the automated moves, the sofa is no longer seen, and there is a cheap, strange huge, "support us" overlay on the video. Can't they just have someone reaching out under the table to play with magnets? Sometimes the best magic tricks are the simplest.

Kaidanov

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#366

Hey guys, I've recently discovered many other collaborators of regium: all those people on facebook and twitter who have a profile picture of themselves looking 10 years younger. These people, de facto, do not exist (.com!). They used to exist, sure - in the ninties or so!

Therefore, I urge the members here to report all these 1.5 billion scammers to facebook,twitter and other social media platforms, since this is a grand scale criminal act, the proportions of which are simply devastating.

the_archbishop edited

#367

wtf?
Meant to be funny?

Tore5

#368

@chesslegendmaster in one of the videos they have the person's hand in the picture when the piece is moving...

It's possible to fake, but , still very hard..

I agree that it could be faked, but it would take ALOT of frames and ALOT of work..... Still it could be done.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG5mR7ofYos

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3WWuHgIwQ0&feature=emb_logo

Kaidanov

#369

@the_archbishop
Yes, my friend, It's called joking. or is that not allowed? I know conspicously promising a space-age e-chess board is a very serious subject, but i think a little humour can perhaps help in de-toxifying the crowd's urge to keep trying to sentence and punish a person without a trial.

This platform is dear to me and i'm sure to all of us, and I think this got out of proportions long ago. my opinion. nothing more.

WildTiger edited

#370

@Alphilinte

Yes.
It reminds me the famous Theranos fraud, but with a very limited budget and without a single competent person.

www.businessinsider.com/the-history-of-silicon-valley-unicorn-theranos-and-ceo-elizabeth-holmes-2018-5

The important thing is to protect innocent people and their hard earned money.
And I'm very happy that Lichess community does exactly that.

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