During the pandemic of 2020, I, like many others, found myself with a surplus of free time.
Not one to be discouraged, I put it to good use by buying myself a big box of Sculpey polymer clay, and building equipment for one of my favorite board games of all time, chess.
I didn't want it to just be any old chess set you could just buy at your local game store for like, a buck, though, so I decided to make it special, by making (mostly) all the pieces look human.
Then, I had some clay left over, so I started making more pieces, from different variants of chess!
I'll make this a thread showing off all the pieces and their movement patterns.
The King, the most important piece on the chessboard. Without him, there would be no game of chess. His loyal subjects have been tasked with upholding his safety, and threatening that of the other King. The King can move one square in any direction. (On this board, valid moves will be marked with poker chips.)
While the King is the most important piece on the board, you might find his movement to be rather lacking, in that it's limited to only one square. His wife, the Queen, is much more powerful, in fact being the most powerful piece available in vanilla chess. She can move any number of squares, in any direction, so long as her path is fully unblocked.
