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Its not often that you see all three Mini-Sensory modules for sale in their boxes with manuals:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fidelity-Electr ... SwnNBXcBMG

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Steve B wrote:Well this looks like a new low even for Ebay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fidelity-Styrof ... SwepZXRNQp

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Image Anyone who’d pay $14.99 & $5 shipping for a packaging remnant needs to....

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Steve B wrote:Well this looks like a new low even for Ebay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fidelity-Styrof ... SwepZXRNQp

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Incredibly crazy....

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Technology is advancing waaay too fast for me

3D Printed dedicated chess computer pieces???

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3D-Printed-Duch ... Swwo1XdDL3

:shock: Regards :shock:
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Steve B wrote:Technology is advancing waaay too fast for me

3D Printed dedicated chess computer pieces???

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3D-Printed-Duch ... Swwo1XdDL3

:shock: Regards :shock:
Those are pretty ugly pieces!
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SirDave wrote:
Steve B wrote:Technology is advancing waaay too fast for me

3D Printed dedicated chess computer pieces???

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3D-Printed-Duch ... Swwo1XdDL3

:shock: Regards :shock:
Those are pretty ugly pieces!
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not sure how these new fangled modern tech things even work
perhaps they would look better if we wore..

3D Glasses Regards
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Steve B wrote:Technology is advancing waaay too fast for me

3D Printed dedicated chess computer pieces???

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3D-Printed-Duch ... Swwo1XdDL3

:shock: Regards :shock:
Marcel Duchamp was the Andy Warhol of the chess world. He originally designed these unique chess pieces in ebony and what appears to be teak wood. A quality reproduction would be a boon to any chess set collection, though the cheap plastic rendition doesn’t do it justice, in my opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Du ... t_to_chess

What I really like is Marcel Duchamp’s chess table featuring these pieces and the analog chess clocks built into the table (scroll to the far right).

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I took another look at them and found them even worse. To me, if an 'artiste' is going to mess with chess pieces, the design should reflect some understanding of the value/importance of the pieces.

The bishops look like oversized pawns. The king is supposed to be the most important piece, but the rounded top makes it look emasculated. As for the oversized rooks, well...

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SirDave wrote:I took another look at them and found them even worse. To me, if an 'artiste' is going to mess with chess pieces, the design should reflect some understanding of the value/importance of the pieces.

The bishops look like oversized pawns. The king is supposed to be the most important piece, but the rounded top makes it look emasculated. As for the oversized rooks, well...

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What gets me is the price. The box might be worth 20 bucks, and
The pieces are basically just a photo copy. Why isn't the price
maybe 35 bucks?
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Larry wrote:What gets me is the price. The box might be worth 20 bucks, and The pieces are basically just a photo copy. Why isn't the price
maybe 35 bucks?
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That is exactly how I responded. Maybe $35, but $166 for plastic chessmen? The seller is well known but in this case it may be hard to find the right buyer.
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SirDave wrote:I took another look at them and found them even worse. To me, if an 'artiste' is going to mess with chess pieces, the design should reflect some understanding of the value/importance of the pieces.

The bishops look like oversized pawns. The king is supposed to be the most important piece, but the rounded top makes it look emasculated. As for the oversized rooks, well...

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Yes, I must concur on both points.

The minimalist king design doesn’t appeal to me either, and I would have much preferred some type of adornment, though not necessarily a cross atop. As it stands (pun intended), the queen is slightly taller than the king on this set, which is uncommon. Was Duchamp trying to downplay the importance of the king?

The bishops look a bit like pawns because they lack the finials featured on most Staunton type sets. I also own vintage metalware sets in which the bishop’s miter was omitted by design.

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A New Low for the Master Modder..

now he is just outright copying eproms and selling them


http://www.ebay.com/itm/Chess-Computer- ... Sw9NdXqgUn

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I just bought this:

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defects? Only the lack of the black rook.
price? around 30 $.

My best purchase ever. Milestone in the collection.
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Good buy Larryadler!!
By the way theres a saitek rennaissance with the brute force module for $1400, no bidders, how come nobody is bidding? Too expensive ? Whats a reasonable price?

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chesspcmac wrote: By the way theres a saitek rennaissance with the brute force module for $1400, no bidders, how come nobody is bidding? Too expensive ? Whats a reasonable price?
I guess its the module Mike
if I were looking for a Ren Brute I would pay up to $1000..but that's me I guess
theres a Ren Sparc on ebay which has 20 bidders and a current price of about $1400(as I write)
to be honest the large Wooden Saitek boards(Leonardo,Galileo and Ren) don't generally generate the same bidding frenzy as the large wooden Fidelity boards or even the large Novag wooden boards
never understood why that is exactly ..but..

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