Abstract: The invention relates to a game device, comprising: a game board divided into discrete squares and pieces of differing type for placing on these squares, such as a chessboard and chess pieces, wherein the squares are ordered in a rectangular array comprising rows and columns of squares, which game device comprises detection means for detecting the possible presence and the type of a piece on each square, in addition to means for generating appropriate detection signals, which device comprises: resonance coils arranged in the playing pieces; a number of elongate transmit and receive coils arranged in the board which each extend below a row or column of squares such that a part of both a transmit and receive coil is situated under each square; means for successively selecting a transmit coil and a receive coil in scanning manner; an amplifier which in correspondingly scanning manner is connected with its output to the selected transmit coil and connected with its input to the selected receive coil such tha