I have made several crude, but playable chess sets over the years, and would
like to know if anybody else has?

I have made several crude, but playable chess sets over the years, and would
like to know if anybody else has?

No, but I made reasonably nice sets of Shogi and Xiang Qi pieces out of printed
graphics, photo mounting board, and lamination. This is a method that works
well for a lot of games, including chess variants, since you can use any
graphic you want to represent the pieces, and it's not a difficult process
(hey! I managed it, so it's fool-proof!)

I made one in college (nothing else to do I guess) with paraffin-filled beer
cans. Had the King of Beers, of course, and even Rolling Rooks. Pawns were
8-ounce cans (can't remember what kind, but I could only find them in
Pennsylvania).

MGoBlue

"Chuck in Minot" wrote in message
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I have made several crude, but playable chess sets over the years, and
would
like to know if anybody else has?






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Melissa wrote:
Several years ago, I was visiting a friend for a few weeks, and she
didn't have a chess set at the time, so we improvised a board and
pieces. We drew the board on a piece of paper. Then, we used 16 shiny
pennies for white, and 16 old/dark pennies for the black pieces. The
pawns were plain pennies, and to mark the other pieces, we used those
little round stickers with the holes in the middle that are used to
reinforce punched out holes in paper, stuck them to the non-pawn
pennies, and drew different patterns of pen marks on them to signify
King, Queen, Rook, Knight, and Bishop. So...a few simple office
supplies and 32 cents was all it took! :-)

Luxureh! When Ah were in deepest, darkest Finland, we 'ad ter use scraps
o' paper wi' le'ers wri'en on 'em fer t' pieces.


Dave.

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Melissa wrote:

So...a few simple office
supplies and 32 cents was all it took! :-)

Maybe some do-it-yourself clay/resin pieces could be better.
http://www.hobby.uk.com/D-I-Y%20Ches...%20Article.htm For a
quick-and-dirty pieces, bread and gouache (you can use the bread as if
it was clay, but with time it will develop mould or will attract insects
or rats, or something like). For a not-so-quick-but-still-dirty, papier
mache and gouache (http://www.papiermache.co.uk/).

I did a little chess set when I was 13 years old. I get a small table
and painted it to be the chessboard, cut some cardboard (I think I used
some coins to make sure they was round, but I'm not sure) and draw the
chessmen on it (no adults helping me). It lasted for a couple of years
(not a lot of playing), until I lost interest on chess.

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I once made a chess set out of belly-button lint, ear wax and toe jam.
It's still playable and has many uses besides chess.

"Cesar A. K. Grossmann" wrote in message ...
Melissa wrote:

So...a few simple office
supplies and 32 cents was all it took! :-)

Maybe some do-it-yourself clay/resin pieces could be better.
http://www.hobby.uk.com/D-I-Y%20Ches...%20Article.htm For a
quick-and-dirty pieces, bread and gouache (you can use the bread as if
it was clay, but with time it will develop mould or will attract insects
or rats, or something like). For a not-so-quick-but-still-dirty, papier
mache and gouache (http://www.papiermache.co.uk/).

I did a little chess set when I was 13 years old. I get a small table
and painted it to be the chessboard, cut some cardboard (I think I used
some coins to make sure they was round, but I'm not sure) and draw the
chessmen on it (no adults helping me). It lasted for a couple of years
(not a lot of playing), until I lost interest on chess.

[]s

"nowonmai" wrote in message
om...
I once made a chess set out of belly-button lint, ear wax and toe jam.
It's still playable and has many uses besides chess.

ROFLMAO! That was so gross...

"Cesar A. K. Grossmann" wrote in message
...
Melissa wrote:

So...a few simple office
supplies and 32 cents was all it took! :-)

Maybe some do-it-yourself clay/resin pieces could be better.
http://www.hobby.uk.com/D-I-Y%20Ches...%20Article.htm For a
quick-and-dirty pieces, bread and gouache (you can use the bread as if
it was clay, but with time it will develop mould or will attract insects
or rats, or something like). For a not-so-quick-but-still-dirty, papier
mache and gouache (http://www.papiermache.co.uk/).

I did a little chess set when I was 13 years old. I get a small table
and painted it to be the chessboard, cut some cardboard (I think I used
some coins to make sure they was round, but I'm not sure) and draw the
chessmen on it (no adults helping me). It lasted for a couple of years
(not a lot of playing), until I lost interest on chess.

[]s

In article ,
says...
I have made several crude, but playable chess sets over the years, and would
like to know if anybody else has?

No, but I made reasonably nice sets of Shogi and Xiang Qi pieces out of printed
graphics, photo mounting board, and lamination. This is a method that works
well for a lot of games, including chess variants, since you can use any
graphic you want to represent the pieces, and it's not a difficult process
(hey! I managed it, so it's fool-proof!)



Using similar techniques I made a very attractive "refrigerator set" a few
years back. With an inkjet printer and paper, some laminating material, and
magnetic material, you can work wonders.

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