chess
Gaming

Typographical Chess Lets Novices Easily Recognise Each Piece

If you grew up playing draughts, transitioning to chess and keeping track of which piece is which and what moves where can be tricky. So to smooth out the learning curve, OneSavesSolutions created this 3D printed Typographical Chess Set with the name of each piece integrated into its design.

4 April 2013

Gaming

How Chess Got Its Timeless Style

You know a chess piece when you see one. They might be the most recognisable objects in gaming. But they didn’t always look that way. In fact, for the longest time they didn’t even look a way. The Smithsonian Magazine dug into the roots of that iconic design and it’s not as old as you might think.

8 February 2013

Gadgets

These Slick Stackable Chess Pieces Track Your Calculated Carnage

It can be easy to forget, but a chess game is a battle. And while you’re sitting there, scratching your chin and trying to feel smart, soldiers are dying at your command. This clever chess set designed by Orr Kislev helps you keep that in mind by leaving all the corpses on the board.

15 January 2013

Gaming

You’ll Always Have Room In Your Bag For This Laser-Cut Chess Set

Yes, there are literally thousands of chess games available for mobile devices. But there’s still something utterly satisfying about moving physical pieces around an actual board, and facing your opponent. So skip Chess With Friends and go with Jonas Lang’s beautiful laser-cut chess set that’s as easy to carry as your ultra-thin laptop.

5 January 2013

Geek Out

Wobbling Chess Set Makes It Impossible To Concede

It’s mostly a symbolic gesture, but you can forget about dodging an embarrassing checkmate by toppling your king with this Wobble Chess Set. Like Hasbro’s Weeble toys, all the pieces in this set have weighted rounded bottoms so they’ll wobble back and forth but never fall over.

6 October 2012

Gaming

This Typographic Chess Set Is Too Pretty To Play

This gorgeous typographic chess set, based around the Champion font by Hoefler Frere Jones, brings elegant simplicity to the game with each piece assuming the form of its initial. It’s almost too pretty to play.

4 September 2012

Gaming

What Is The Nerdiest Game Ever?

How do you make an already-geeky game even geekier? By making it out of electronic components, of course. MAKE magazine is showing off this super-nerdy game of chess, where resistors become pawns, LEDs stand in as bishops and the king and queen are represented by electrolytic capacitors.

28 July 2012

Geek Out

You’ve Got To Be Crafty To Take Down The Empire With This Lego Star Wars Chess Set

This whole rebellion business could have been handled with much more savvy than just blowing up home planets and Deathstars. Both sides could have sat down to a friendly no-holds-barred, all-or-nothing chess match with the fate of the galaxy on the line like civilised people.

29 June 2012

Gadgets

Nixie Tube Chess Set Is As Tough To Read As Kasparov

If you fancy yourself skilled at the art of hacking — and have an appreciation for retro technology — the creator of this impressive Nixie Tube chess set soon plans to sell a DIY kit that’s apparently not for the faint of heart.

27 June 2012

Computing

Garry Kasparov And Alan Turing Play Chess

Sixty years ago, Alan Turing sat down to write a computer algorithm which could play a human at chess. Sadly, he never got to see it running on a computer, but now it’s been coded up and who better to pit it against than… Garry Kasparov? Gulp.

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