Chess Set for Firearm Fans — Now That’s A Cool Concept
How about a game of “Cartridge Chess”, with chess pieces sourced from your own ammunition collection? We think the concept of a Cartridge Chess Set is pretty clever, and it’s bound to be a conversation-starter at home or at the hunting lodge. With a little creativity, our readers could make their own Chess Sets like this, using a variety of cartridge types.
Create Your Own Cartridge Chess Set
This is a 3-D rendering found on the Cheaper Than Dirt Facebook page. We’d like to see a chess set with actual cartridges (assembled without powder or primers), perhaps with .32 ACP pawns and the 50 BMG and .338 LM as King and Queen.
Challenge: How many cartridge and shotshell types can you identify? The Pawns look like 9mm or 40sw pistol cartridges, while the Rooks (Castles) are obviously 12ga shotgun shells.
What’s Wrong with This Picture?: How many of you sharp-eyed chessmasters noticed a mistake in the placement of the “Royals” in the Cheaper Than Dirt 3-D rendering. Hint — look at the grid layout (top left) for the correct placement of Kings and Queens.
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When playing with pieces that aren’t shaped as classic pieces the height of the back row should slope down from the king/queen down thru the rook.
So the king & queen would be the first and second tallest, then the bishops being third tallest, the Knight fourth, and the rook fifth (and hopefully shaped in some kind of tower shape). When playing with non-representative pieces it is a lot easier to rely on the height of the piece to tell them what they are.
Answer to question: the dark king and queen should be switched in the photo above. The queen should always be placed on the square that matches her side (black on black square, white on white square)
I used to have this image as my desktop background, until one day I noticed the pawn in front of the knight in the bottom corner doesn’t have a casing- it is just a really long bullet. Took me forever to notice since you can’t see much of it behind the shotgun shell rook. Couldn’t un-see it after that, and had to change my background to preserve my sanity.