Ballin' chess sets. - Page 4 - Chess and Board Game Strategy

I love the not-so-PG chess sets. Too bad you can't use these at a tournament. It'd take a pretty good opponent to be able to focus. (NSFW)

http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmate...chess-set.aspx
http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/modern...ss-part-2.aspx

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11-05-2009 , 12:37 AM

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Neil S

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Originally Posted by jontsef

At the World Open there were a few incidents. Basically one guy would play, and every few moves he would go to the bathroom to relay the position to his partner. His partner was sitting with a computer somewhere, supposedly in a car close to the building, and would relay the computer's suggestion back to the play thru a radio transmitter.

What I meant was that in the future, when technology advances and bluetooth boards are more widespread, then the cheater won't have to do anything to relay the moves to his partner because the board would do so automatically. All he would need to do is listen in his radio ear piece for the suggestions.

Yes, but Bluetooth emissions don't have that kind of range. Plus, an earpiece wouldn't help unless the partner is a computer.

He'd have to have a device that essentially reverse-engineered the board to decode its emissions. And use it from close range.

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11-05-2009 , 03:53 AM

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jontsef

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Originally Posted by Neil S

hence my inclusion of "in the future" and "when technology advances"

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11-05-2009 , 08:29 AM

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RoundTower

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Originally Posted by Neil S

why couldn't the player have a PDA/Blackberry/iPhone/etc in his pocket, or in a bag near the table, or stuck to the underside of the table? Assuming the PDA can run the DGT software (not a huge stretch) it would be fairly trivial to relay the moves on to a partner outside over the cellular network.

I think this could be done now with a very small amount of effort by a moderately experienced techy guy.

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11-10-2009 , 01:24 AM

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Fels krone

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Originally Posted by Neil S

http://www.chainmailbasket.com/projectdetails.php?ID=54

winner

i wanna touch it

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11-10-2009 , 02:23 AM

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ganstaman

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Originally Posted by Fels krone

i wanna touch it

I though exactly the same thing when I saw the picture. If I played with it, I don't think I'd ever stop touching the pieces. The touch-move rule would kill my game.

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11-10-2009 , 11:56 AM

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Neil S

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Originally Posted by RoundTower

OK now that's a great point.

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04-04-2010 , 01:04 AM

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chisness

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Can chess tables match the ballerness of the high end boards? Can anyone point out some good chess tables?

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04-04-2010 , 10:23 PM

#84

holla

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I have a board almost like this.

http://media.photobucket.com/image/g...n41/chess1.jpg

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04-05-2010 , 03:58 AM

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GrassHopperAA

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Originally Posted by holla

I have a board almost like this.

http://media.photobucket.com/image/g...n41/chess1.jpg

Those sell for 10 bucks at drug stores. When they first came out, they were 50 dollars, and my dad bought me one. They are cool looking.

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04-05-2010 , 04:02 AM

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GrassHopperAA

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Originally Posted by Tigerpat

http://www.dia.org/museum_info/chess/gallery.asp#

faberge chess set...pretty bad ass

this link doesn't have a photo.

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07-18-2013 , 10:12 PM

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ganstaman

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I feel like this is a decent reason to bump this thread. My grandfather had a marble chessboard, and when he died my grandmother wanted me to have the board. But it's very heavy, so too expensive to mail or take on a plane, and she lives over 24 hours away by driving. Eventually, she mailed it to me. Each square on the board is 2 inches on a side.

It didn't have pieces, though. I just bought a set of Isle of Lewis pieces for it. Here are some pics (first, a useless overhead view):

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07-19-2013 , 04:07 AM

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wlrs

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Nice board. Are the purple pieces made of marzipan

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07-19-2013 , 06:08 AM

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my parents bought me the isle of lewis chess set (mainly bc our last name is lewis) somewhere around my high school graduation. completely impractical to play, but i love that thing so much. i still need to get a fancy board to show it off properly.