Tonino Lamborghini Silver Chess Set

Jul 7th 2009 Other Stuff No Comments

Tonino Lamborghini Silver Chess Set (Image courtesy Forzieri Italia)
By Andrew Liszewski

For some people, taking a sports car like a Lamborghini Reventón for a test drive is the ultimate dream, but I’m sure there are others who are more thrilled at the prospect of watching Searching For Bobby Fischer or seeing Garry Kasparov challenge IBM’s Deep Blue again. And oddly enough, Lamborghini has just the thing for that latter group as well.

This silver chess set by Tonino Lamborghini (son of Ferruccio Lamborghini) comes packaged in a well-appointed wooden case complete with protective storage slots for the pieces that are actually differentiated on either side of the board by their high-polish or matte finishes. And given the Reventón’s $1.6 million price tag, $395 for this chess set seems like quite the deal.

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Phantom Chess Doesn

Jan 23rd 2009 Other Stuff No Comments

Phantom Chess (Image courtesy Pro-Idee)
By Andrew Liszewski

Despite the haunting product shot, Phantom Chess doesn’t have any connections with the supernatural, so you ghost hunters can just move on. The real ’secret’ is good-old fashioned electromagnetism, though I’m sure you were able to figure that part out on your own. (It’s not like self-playing chess games are a recent innovation.) It’s designed for those who are truly lazy, and moving your piece is as easy as tapping the start and target squares and letting the game do the rest. In addition, not only will taken pieces be automatically moved to the side of the board, but you can even turn on Battle Chess like sound effects to make things more exciting.

Phantom Chess is powered by an 8-bit dual processor and has an ELO level rating of 1400 from the SSDF. (Swedish Chess Computer Association or Svenska schackdatorföreningen) In comparison, Garry Kasparov has a rating of over 2800, so while you won’t be competing against the most brilliant minds in chess, I’m sure the Phantom could still give most of us a good schooling. You can pick one up from Pro-Idee for about $213.

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