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A Chessboard with robotic arms, magnets and automatically moving pieces – Square Off is here
The age-old game of chess is going through a transformation, and in a very ‘connected’ way. The brainchild of India-based Infivention, Square Off is a smart, connected, and digital chess board set that moves pieces across the board automatically as per digital players’ moves. The traditional looking wooden digital board has pieces fitted with a…
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Huge and amazingly detailed Star Wars Hoth Lego chess set
Brickplace Custom has created an ice chess set inspired from the icy planet Hoth from Star Wars – Empire Strike back. The attention to detail is phenomenal it features Han Solo frozen in carbonite, Emperor’s Hologram, Boba Fett, Luke’s Jedi training, etc.
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Capcom’s limited edition Street Fighter Chess set
Capcom is selling the Street Fighter Chess set at the San Diego Comic-Con show floor. It looks incredibly classy and features Street Fighter character busts with a chrome finish. The only downside it costs a whopping $400 and Capcom was selling only 10 of them at the weekend. Undoubtedly they would have been sold. But…
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Camera Lens Chess Set will shoot your opponents down
Chess doesn’t go awry, no matter how you shape the pieces. Unlike other games where the ball has to be nothing but round, chess introduces a whole variety of themes such as music, action, gaming and so, why not cameras. That’s what the creative geniuses from LensRentals worked on. They’ve come up with a chess…
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In quest to be world leaders in Chess, Armenia make it compulsory in schools
Did it ever occur to you how you can hone the skills of a generation, and build them into super champions of a new age that will rise you to domination? Armenia never really seemed to be the ones who’d come up with this concept but alas, it’s struck the nation now. Thankfully it’s not…
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Would you pay $1300 for a Chess Board made from Lego?
Now one would image that Lego is no more than a child’s play toy, to help inculcate a sense of creativity in a child and of course one would be quite correct. But these days Lego has become so much more. It was just recently that we came across a robot made of Lego that…
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Star Wars Chess set
The Star Wars Chess set comes with 32 collectible pewter figures in gold and silver, a game board with glass etched top with Death Star imagery and a slide out drawer for storing all the 32 pieces. Costing $500 it is something only a hard core Star Wars fan would buy. [BBG]
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LEGO Castle Giant Chess Set
Lego personifications are nothing new and neither are the varieties of Chess sets that we have come across in the past. But marry the two ideas and you have the LEGO Castle Giant Chess Set, which is simply astounding. You can pre-order the 2,481-piece (576 of which are the individual shiny block tops on the…
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New Wave Chess & Checkers is the lightest
Ever wondered how to pass the time during a long journey or stopover? The three-way chess may be too confusing but travel-size games can be fun. But the again, sometimes packing them in can be a problem too. Not anymore if it’s New Wave’s Chess & Checkers. It claims to be the lightest game board…
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3-Way Chess is making me all confused
I admit that I’m no Grand Master and the only game of Chess that I really enjoyed was in the book “If Tomorrow Comes” where the Tracy challenges two of the World’s best chess players to a match and plays one against the other without them realizing it. So, if two people playing chess can…
