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Chess
Posted: September 17th, 2007, 12:05 pm
by araknoid
I think I've seen two Origami chess sets around. Makes me wonder if there are any others, and CPs or diagrams of course.
Chess is such a wonderful subject so open to variations.
Posted: September 17th, 2007, 4:40 pm
by maarten_smit
Posted: September 17th, 2007, 7:54 pm
by origamimasterjared
There are quite a few 1-piece chessboards, and four chess sets I know of.
The full sets are by Joseph Wu (his website), Stephen O'Hanlon (his website), John Montroll (Origami Inside Out), and Marc Kirschenbaum (PCOC Play -
http://db.origami.com/book_contents.asp?BookID=2247).
John Montroll has an excellent chessboard in Origami Inside Out. Marc Kirschenbaum has two seamless chess boards (each square is crease-free), an amazing 4-piece one (at Dr. O'Hanlon's site, fishgoth.com) and a[n impossible] 1-piece one you can find on origami.com. Sy Chen has a checkerboard in OUSA 2001. Steven Casey has [an unpublished as far as I know] 1-piece checkerboard that is seamless and I heard uses twist folds. Martin Wall, Max Hulme, etc. made chess boards long ago, there's a BOS booklet of them--haven't seen it though.
Posted: September 17th, 2007, 10:44 pm
by Sunburst
There is also the one I fully created for a school project that you can find
here.
Posted: September 17th, 2007, 10:56 pm
by origami_8
Oh, that's very very nice
Posted: September 17th, 2007, 11:09 pm
by Oruhito
Wow that's great! And you designed it yourself?
Posted: September 17th, 2007, 11:41 pm
by Sunburst
Thanks! Yes, I designed it myself. Each piece is made from a single square of homemade foil while the board is from 4 squares.
Posted: September 18th, 2007, 4:39 am
by qtrollip
Yes, well done. Very good!
Posted: September 18th, 2007, 11:41 pm
by araknoid
thanks for the info!
and sunburst i like your set it's so elegant
Posted: July 20th, 2009, 8:12 am
by peterbud
Does anyone hold the diagrams of Hans Birkeland's 4-piece chessboard? It's been on his website but now the site has gone in the sink...
I'm interested in it because I just compiled a
mini-database about different chequered patterns which misses a few details.
Thanks in advance!
Posted: July 20th, 2009, 8:38 am
by Daydreamer
Hans Birkeland's homepage is now available here:
http://www.hansbirkeland.150m.com/
(unfortunately with loads of advertising that sometimes hinders the browsing of the website...)
Posted: July 20th, 2009, 9:20 am
by peterbud
Danke sehr!
Seems like Google didn't catch it yet... The pop-up ads are really annoying indeed, but at least I got the diagrams now.
Next question: can anyone provide me with information about the boards published in the
BOS booklet #7 and CDO's
QQM 26?
My basic interest is in the models which use squares and are at least 4x4. Is Max Hulme's 8x8 (in BOS booklet #7) fuzzy or clean face?
Posted: July 21st, 2009, 2:41 am
by ahudson
There are three chessboards by Max Hulme in that booklet: the first is made from four sheets, the second from one sheet with cuts, the third from one sheet without cuts. All three are what you'd call "fuzzy".
Posted: July 22nd, 2010, 4:19 am
by kevin89
can anybody help me with the chess board by marc kirschenbaum? I'm stuck on step 61.