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RF Connector Chess Set

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-that-is-super-clever dept.

*no comment* writes "Some clever bloke has come up with his own chess set using a standard chess board and RF connectors." This sort of thing pleases me greatly.

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  1. Missing a couple pieces by fred_sanford · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Looks like he didn't make any extra queens.

  2. Re:I like the fourth picture by iocat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He didn't make that kid wear a cape. One of the funniest (in an endearing sense) things about kids is the way they will happily wear pieces of their Haloween costumes for months after Haloween.

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  3. Weird pieces by Quill_28 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While cool to look at, I always hated playing chess with
    non-normal pieces.

    1. Re:Weird pieces by dr_davel · · Score: 2, Insightful
      Parent is exactly right -- it turns out that serious chess players are never interested in goofy (i.e., non-Staunton) chess sets that other folks seem to think are nifty. An analog would be goofy fonts, any person who likes to read text in the Latin alphabet probably isn't seeking out works set in Old English Text MT or Magneto.

      Which means that non-Staunton chess sets are designed by and for non-chess players.

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  4. Finally by JavaNPerl · · Score: 2, Insightful

    a chess set that the Franklin Mint doesn't yet produce! Cool novelty, but most serious players I know use a Staunton style set.

  5. Custom Chess Sets by stoolpigeon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I had a friend in the Navy who would make his own chess sets using lead figurines. He always won because I'd forget which pieces were which.

    At least this set it doesn't seem that it would be too difficult to keep track of who was what.

    I hated it when I'd move my 'orc w/wolves' piece and he'd say - 'You can't do that with a bishop.'-- 'A bishop?! I thought that was a knight!!' -- 'It doesn't matter you'll be in check mate in a minute anyway.'--'How?'-- 'You left your king wide open in that corner.'--'My king? That elf is my king?'-- and so on.

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  6. Your post: The Haiku by carpe_noctem · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While cool to look at
    I always hated chess with
    non-normal pieces

    Yes, I -am- bored at work waiting for this last 30min to be done with..

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  7. Don't we have anything else to do? by uberjoe · · Score: 3, Insightful
    As I post this there are 180 comments attached to this story.

    It's a CHESSBOARD!

    Yeah It's pretty cool. Would I want one, sure. But is this news worthy of 180 (181 now that I've joined the fray) nerds chattering about it?

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  8. Re:MOD PARENT TWO SQUARES RIGHT AND ONE FORWARD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What are you the bishop of the church of good grammar?
    I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks he his message is just a pawn in your sick spelling game.

    Anyone else disturbed that the bishop takes the pawn for a check?

    Aaaand.. right about here it ceased to be funny. Please try again.