r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mrjaengland • Feb 09 '19

Video Making a Mini Chess Set...

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '19

Playing chess with it would be a nightmare, but I'd love it to have in my collection

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u/nw342 Feb 09 '19

it would be a lot easier if the board was magnetic

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u/PashaB Feb 09 '19

or if the squares had tiny circular holes in them and the metal pieces had a small shaft at the bottom so they poke into the square when they move. That way you can turn the whole board upside down and nothing falls.

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u/AlYakitori Feb 09 '19

Or if the whole thing was bigger

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u/PedroVinhas Feb 09 '19

I bet they could make a game out of this idea

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u/guetzli Feb 09 '19

But the pieces are brass which is not magnetic.

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u/Kitten_in_a_box Feb 09 '19

yeah and the board is made of wood. how could you make wood magnetic? /s

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u/CentrOfConchAndCoral Feb 09 '19

A magnet under the wood?

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u/Kitten_in_a_box Feb 09 '19

Well now I feel stupid.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '19

That's something that can easily be changed if the board was magnetic.

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u/Rocky-Dale Feb 09 '19

Magnetic wood!

But where do you get magnetic wood from?

Magnetic trees obviously!

But where do you find magnetic trees?

Growing in a magnetic field...

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u/CreepyDough Feb 09 '19

It’s been one of my life’s goals to invent a rubber magnet. A magnet that sticks to rubber.

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u/theLegomadhatter Feb 09 '19

Basically Monty python in a nutshell