If you find yourself looking for a computer opponent, or you just prefer playing online, you might like this LED chessboard ... button inputs from the board’s side panel. The Nano is interfaced ...

so he had some narrow PCBs made and started working on his LED replacement backlight. He built a driver board for the LEDs, populated with left over components that he stripped from the LCD panel ...

And even next-gen OLED panel technology from LG and Samsung is only promising to increase that to around 400 nits, miles short of the thousands of nit mini-LED and indeed Sony's new RGB LED can ...