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Form follows...your move

By Sam Dunne - Aug 01, 2011

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Northwestern Northwestern

There's probably more beautiful/minimal/witty chess set concepts floating around design blogs than there are people actually still playing the game these days. Nevertheless—graphic design student Alessia Mazzarella's functional set made the Dieter in us smile.

Just in case the concept isn't entirely self explanatory—the shape of each piece is intended to represent its movement, perfect for learning the game:

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Sam Dunne is a designer, strategist and writer based in London. Sam is founder of design strategy agency Cohere and Contributing Editor at Core77—reporting broadly on design, technology, food and object culture.

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    The board itself should be different in colour from the pieces themselves.
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    please don't work on a chessboard if you don't know the first rulle. black on bottom left !!!! please and the same for the bauhaus chess :'(
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    my god hartwig ripoff, 90 years later... "graphic design student Alessia Mazzarella's functional set made the Dieter in us smile." haha I'm pretty sure Dieter knows his bauhaus
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    Have you ever heard about bauhaus?!?!?!?!?
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    bauhaus chess http://www.nongames.com/articles/pb/img/fig5.jpg
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