Anybody seen these pieces? Guy told me they were from an ARB

[qubit]

I picked up some Chafitz Auto Reponse Boards from a craigslist seller recently. Aside from the ordinary wooden pieces he included a set of heavy metal ones. The seller told me that he vaguely remembered buying them from Chafitz as an optional extra back in the day. I can't find any information about them, but they sure look pretty. Anybody seen these before?

[Steve B]

Hi
i have a very similar magentic chess set..using this Renaissance theme
i compared the pieces and Pawns and there are almost identical although not exactly
the pieces are very light weight as they are hollow inside
are yours the same?
i can say my set had nothing to do with the ARB or any other dedicated chess computer ..i picked up the set many years ago which came with a large magnetic chess board

Renaissance Regards
Steve

[qubit]

Hmm, interesting. Mine are definitely not hollow, they're pretty heavy.

[Fernando]

BTW, perhaps you should polish a little the table where the pieces are.....

carpenter regards
Fern

[qubit]

Haha, I was cutting up a lot of paper to make book covers and I went right through my cutting mat into the desk without noticing. At least I wasn't cutting on top of one of these Auto Reponse Boards...

[Fernando]

If you have done that with the surface of a wooden comp the elders police would be already catching you for a walk to the forest and...

bang regards
Fern

[Monsieur Plastique]

I'm pretty certain those pieces were the well-publicised ones discovered amongst the remains of frozen woolly mammoths in Siberia rather than an alternative set for the ARB.

[Fernando]

Right on target.
I have heard rumors that the mammoth was an expert chess player.

Fern