We had a great Monday evening a few weeks back - well, Moday evenings are always great with our no-agenda gathering of whoever for soup and bread.

There was a call for chess, but no chess set to be found in our spider-webby games basket. So David made put his designer skills into creating a chess board concept (using an astoundingly effective idea for creating a 64 square games-space by positioning eight squares on each side of a square matrix, thus giving a totally non-asymetrical two dimensional playing area)

Luke supplied his mechanical engineering and robotics expertise to making games pieces with unique non-articulating playing pieces using a pre-mechanical concept of whole-unit manual transmission, using a plastic medium.  Martin just made the other colour pieces out of placticene.

It was a lot of fun.  THe pieces gradually evolved during play, not a usual occurrence :)