user16923: I'm a maker and I'm doing my own chess board. 
I want the board to be able to sense where are the pieces located, so my idea is to use magnetic sensors and magnetic pieces.
I would like to just ask a simple question: In the existing magnetic chess sets that one can find everywhere, is the board magnetic and the pieces just contain metal or the opposite (each piece has a magnet and the board is just a metal layer)?
Could somebody who has a magnetic chess set check?
Thanks.

user16925: A magnetic chess set would just be magnets in the pieces and a metal board. If you want to link it to a program to track the pieces, you'd have to track the original positions (initial setup, or later game positions), and from there you could track where pieces were, what moved, and extrapolate what piece moved. That would be a question for Code Review SE, or if there is an EE stack

user4418: Magnetic chess sets have a metallic board and small magnets in each of the pieces.

16923: <p>I'm a maker and I'm doing my own chess board. </p>

<p>I want the board to be able to sense where are the pieces located, so my idea is to use magnetic sensors and magnetic pieces.</p>

<p>I would like to just ask a simple question: In the existing magnetic chess sets that one can find everywhere, is the board magnetic and the pieces just contain metal or the opposite (each piece has a magnet and the board is just a metal layer)?</p>

<p>Could somebody who has a magnetic chess set check?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>
 16925: <p>A magnetic chess set would just be magnets in the pieces and a metal board. If you want to link it to a program to track the pieces, you'd have to track the original positions (initial setup, or later game positions), and from there you could track where pieces were, what moved, and extrapolate what piece moved. That would be a question for Code Review SE, or if there is an EE stack</p>
 4418: <p>Magnetic chess sets have a metallic board and small magnets in each of the pieces.</p>
