what would be really cool is a macro that could translate from shorthand 
chess notation to create a full on animation of an entire game. Add a 
swooping camera, and some notation from famous games (deep blue vs issac 
asimov)  and you got yourself a pretty cool pov script there.

Warp wrote:

>   A chess set is not as classic as the reflective sphere on a checkered
> plane, but it comes close. Thus I decided to make one myself.
>   I made it completely from the scratch, all by hand and pure CSG (I have
> played chess quite a lot and I know what the pieces look like, approximately
> at least).
> 
>   Making a chess set is actually quite fun. I recommend it to everyone
> who hasn't done one yet.
>   It's not too difficult (the horse is the piece that requires most work,
> as can see in my image as well).
>   The set forms a very nice hierarcy of objects. In my set the base of each
> piece is the same object; then I made colorless versions of each piece on
> the base object, and then white and black versions of each piece. Then I
> just copied the right number of pieces to the board.
>   It's also easy to make a little macro that positions a piece on the board
> given its coordinates. This way it's easy to actually "move" the pieces
> on the board, as in actual playing.
> 
> 
> chess.jpg
> 
> Content-Type:
> 
> image/jpeg
> Content-Encoding:
> 
> x-uuencode
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> attachment.txt
> 
> Content-Type:
> 
> text/plain

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