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Players | 2 |
Length | 30-180 minutes |
Equipment Required | single standard piecepack, 8 pennies and 8 dimes |
Designer | Traditional adapted by RonHaleEvans |
Version | 1.0 |
Version Date | 2003-10 |
License | public domain |
This page describes how to create a Chess set from a piecepack and 88 cents worth of U.S. currency. If you don't have U.S. currency because you are not in the U.S., you will have to improvise with the local currency. If you don't have a piecepack, well, I feel sorry for you.
Traditional Game
Actually you can play (if in a very inconvenient way) using only a piecepack. Counting all 24 coins and the 4 pawns and the 4 dice, you have enough pieces (32) to play chess. Use the dice as rooks showing the aces (red and black on one side, blue and green on the other), use the pawns as kings and queens (colored the same as the dice), use the 2's and aces as knights and bishops like Ron's way, finally use the 16 left over coins suit-side up as pawns: 4 suns and 4 moons on the red/black side and 4 arms and 4 crowns on the blue/green side. --Mark A. Biggar
For us Canucks that's $1.18 ;) -- JonathanDietrich
Below is a yet another possible piecepack chess setup building on RonHaleEvans's and Mark A. Biggar's recommended setups. We equate the six piecepack ranks n, a, 2, 3, 4, and 5 with the six chess ranks pawn, knight, bishop, rook, queen, and king and use the piecepack pawns as bishops so 1) we don't need to memorize which suit corresponds to the king and which to the queen and 2) we have 2 extra queens hidden on the board that can be made available for pawn promotions (place the two extra '4' coins being used initially as pawns on the left so they are easier to find if needed). -- TrevorLDavis
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