Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 4:28am
Plenty of people make artsy-fartsy chess sets, but few have managed to combine the nerdiness of chess with the retro-geekiness of vintage Nixie tubes quite as artfully as this induction powered beauty.
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Monday, June 11, 2012 - 6:00am
Kenneth Marx made his first chess set from discarded spark plugs when he was a college student working at a gas station. Now retired, Marx has returned to his hobby and you can buy his custom creations here for $275 each.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - 6:00am
Oh St. Louis, you already have the Arch, do you really need to have the world's largest chess piece too? Well, apparently so because this 2,280-pound, 14.5-foot tall behemoth was dedicated outside the World Chess Hall of Fame on May 7, 2012. Now St. Louis is not only the Gateway to the West, but also the chess capital of the United States. Show offs.
Monday, June 14, 2010 - 3:52am
It's hard to decide what makes the "Monster Chess" set so monster. Is it the fact that it measure 12 feet on a side, and would take up your entire living room? Or how about the fact that it uses 100,000 LEGO pieces which, all told, add up to a hefty fee of $30,000?
Monday, June 29, 2009 - 8:28am
This must be one of the coolest chess sets ever made. Artist Paul Fryer used 32 vacuum tubes to create "Chess Set for Tesla," with each tube sporting an icon up top showing which chess piece it is. Make a...
Monday, February 2, 2009 - 3:51am
Here's a robot that knows its Pong, and goes about playing it as a wizened old master would chess — in no hurry. It uses a webcam-head to watch the ball travel between the paddles, and uses solenoid fingers...
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - 8:18am
Chess is a great game, but do you sometimes find it a little too… static? Wish you could add an extreme component to it? If downhill chess is something you'd like to try, the New Wave Chessboard is the...
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 9:07am
Let's face it: Tic Tac Toe is pretty lame. As definitively explained in WarGames, given a competent opponent, the game will always end in a tie. That kind of sucks, but at least if we played on this mirror...
