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.

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