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Bent plywood chess table that can do a "save game"

By Rain Noe - January 31, 2011

in Object Culture

In this day and age, who's actually got time to locate an opponent and sit down to play a physical chess match? And even if you make it happen, how many moves can you get in before you're interrupted by a phone call, text, e-mail, or a compelling need to tweet "My pawn just pwned?"

Carnegie Mellon design student SJ Lee's Flip-board Chesstable takes checkmatus interruptus into account, featuring a magnetized board on hinges that can be flipped 180, turning it back into a coffee table while inverting and saving your game. So now when you're losing you can kick your opponent out, citing work, and spread out that copy of Grandmaster Techniques.

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Reid Adams

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Okay, this is really cool! I have made a number of chess boards and chess tables in the past, and something like this never even crossed my mind. Kudos to SJ Lee for this outstanding idea!
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