Looking around for a chess board in origami was fun, there seem to be a few out there, including a few that use only 1 sheet of paper and a million creases to perform the necessary colour changes for the squares:
I discovered I could not source paper large enough to make a playable chess board, so looked for alternatives and stumbled across Joseph Wu’s modular chessboard. Continue reading
Head of the house, monarch to be protected, fragile and nearly the least mobile, such is a Chess King:
I like this model, the crown is cute, as is his beard and robes – hiding the round figure of a largely sedentary piece. Continue reading
Behind every good man there is often an even better woman:
The Queen in chess is a valuable piece, being the master of all skills, often the most deadly of opponents. Continue reading
…so, in a conventional chess set, the knight is a horsey, but in this chess set the Knight is the rider:
Not sure I am really happy with this, difficult to tell with this thick paper, but the head shaping is clumsy because of the layers. Continue reading
Integral to the war effort, the church remains a dangerous player on the board:
This is Max Hulme’s “Bishop” – a lovely little Pontif-ish chap that is missing his golden hook and holy relic. Continue reading
Many battles need castles, chess is no exception:
This is Max Hulme’s Castle, one of the few in his series folded from a square and fairly recognisable at a turret. Continue reading
The next few posts will follow a theme, playing with the idea of a classic game, this is the infantry – the cannon fodder, there are lots of these to throw at the enemy:
Max Hulme has designed all of the pieces for a paper chess game, seems wrong to split them up. Folded from a 12×3 proportioned rectangle, a little grimacing face under helmet emerges, then arms, finally the body. Continue reading
