In Vitro
I would like to see a chess set with a cell biology theme.
The board would be clear glass, alternately clear and frosted, with shallow wells in each square. You could put liquid or agar gel in the wells if you were really hard-core.
These would be the pieces:
I think they could be sculpted in the shape of the corresponding cell, and visually the size of the pieces would help clue in the viewer as to the role in gameplay. Or else they could be in little sealed cuvettes shaped like the old Staunton set, etched with the type of cell contained inside. In either case, maybe one side could depict normal cells and the other side would be malignancies.
This is the set that would have worked really well in the Bergman movie.
By milkfish at 2008-07-25
The board would be clear glass, alternately clear and frosted, with shallow wells in each square. You could put liquid or agar gel in the wells if you were really hard-core.
These would be the pieces:
| King | Neuron |
| Queen | Gametocyte |
| Rook | Osteocyte |
| Bishop | Epithelial cell |
| Knight | Leukocyte |
| Pawn | Stem cell |
I think they could be sculpted in the shape of the corresponding cell, and visually the size of the pieces would help clue in the viewer as to the role in gameplay. Or else they could be in little sealed cuvettes shaped like the old Staunton set, etched with the type of cell contained inside. In either case, maybe one side could depict normal cells and the other side would be malignancies.
This is the set that would have worked really well in the Bergman movie.
By milkfish at 2008-07-25
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