{"id":3963,"date":"2010-01-01T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/cube-based-chess-set-adds-modern-confusion-to-timeless-difficulty-chess\/"},"modified":"2010-01-01T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T17:30:00","slug":"cube-based-chess-set-adds-modern-confusion-to-timeless-difficulty-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/cube-based-chess-set-adds-modern-confusion-to-timeless-difficulty-chess.php","title":{"rendered":"Cube-Based Chess Set Adds Modern Confusion To Timeless Difficulty [Chess]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>My chess strategy doesn't extend too far beyond pulling my knights out first, because that's what the computer games always do against me. But with this cube-based set, I'd probably need a strategy just to remember which piece is which.<\/p>

Chess has been reimagined<\/a> more times than anyone cares to count. But Scott Cruz<\/a>'s chess set, designed around a cubic pawn, makes the game even more<\/i> difficult to master, rendering all the pieces as rectangular towers of different heights.<\/p>

Thankfully, Cruz has included a built-in cheat sheet for the easily confused; each piece is indented with tiny squares showing its possible moves.<\/p>

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Still, my go-to set-up mnemonic—\"the Queen always starts on her own color\"—won't work too well on the gray scale board. [The Design Blog<\/a>]<\/p>

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My chess strategy doesn't extend too far beyond pulling my knights out first, because that's what the computer games always do against me. But with this cube-based set, I'd probably need a strategy just to remember which piece is which.Chess … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurist"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}