Regium: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence

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*sigh* a response from Regium about all the comments on kickstarter calling them a scam

Tim Paulden of the Kickstarter comments has produced a Kickstarter report template:

"Dear Kickstarter,

Re: "Regium" Kickstarter - an elaborate scam?

Recent analysis by the world-leading chess sites lichess and chess.com strongly suggests that the "Regium" product is an elaborate scam, including video fakery of the claimed product, and fake photos of the claimed "team" on the website (as detailed in the post below).

What's more, the Regium team are now repeated spamming the Kickstarter comments channel simply to stop people reading the warnings posted by others. Is this the behaviour of a legitimate company?

Full details here (see in particular the updates at the bottom):

lichess.org/blog/XlE48hEAACIAQv2F/regium-extraordinary-claims-require-extraordinary-evidence

See also the chess.com post here:

www.chess.com/news/view/update-on-regium-chess

As a member of the chess community, please could you investigate this project immediately, and if a violation of your terms is found (as I think it will be), shut down this scam project so your members are not ripped off.

Best wishes,

A concerned chess player"

Perhaps we should create a twitter version?

Also sorry @HopelessPatzer01 for some unkown :) reason I am unusually paranoid :/

@rfw

Thanks for mentioning "Maria"'s tweet.

I had a look at the account ... and... surprise surprise, I think this Maria is an Angel.
twitter.com/Rhamnusia_/status/1225607807103307776?s=20

@Panagrellus That is pretty damning evidence. I remember tweeting with thibault about the legitimacy of this board a month or so ago, and I remember "Maria" sticking up for them... This guy is such a loser.

Regium also had full page ad in New in Chess magazine #1 2020.

@mattbro
OMG, that is a pretty damning tweet!