Pac-Man Chess Tetris
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You missed a spot on h8 😄
Nice folding board by the way 👍
Thank you, old but gold! I will post a picture with pieces on it..
In the meantime, it seems to be h8 because it's twice the distance from d4 to f6. These are, along with the squares b2, f2 and b6, the only 5 squares that the d4-knight cannot reach within 3 moves. 3 moves! 58 out of 63 squares! I was very surprised. It was 34 within two moves and 8 within one. I then put the knight on a4, and it became 4 within one, 20 within two, and 44 squares out of 63 within 3 moves. So, compared with the centered knight, the knight on the rim is bad in the beginning 4 vs. 8, then 20 vs. 34, but 44 vs. 58 is the same growth of 24 on move three..
It seems to me that there are ten different knight positions given on a chess board, so that will take some more beads and lego calculus.
Aaah, didn't get what you were doing 🤔
The focus is on Carlsen vs. Niemann, but just look at the absurd setting.
They play through the objectivity and accuracy of the interfaces, but, hey, they are in the same place, they play OTB! Never have two chess players been more remote to one another.. Instead of playing several slots of different time controls, I should rather like to see them play with several sets of pieces and boards 
Happy day: I was so lucky that a neighbour has turned two new king's finials for me that were missing badly ever since I got these old sets: The stars are in the centre of the photo (the light ones on the white kings). He turned them by eye, with a drill, fastened with screw clamps. Using files, rasps, saws and sandpaper. Not exact but totally genius!
Death and the knight in Ingmar Bergman's 1957 movie 'The Seventh Seal'.
Death has come to take him. -'Wait a moment'-'That's what they all say. But I do not bargain.'-'You like to play chess, right?'- 'How do you know?' -'Ah.. I have seen it in pictures, I have heard it.' -'It is true that I am not a bad chess player, indeed.' - 'I bet you do not play better than me.' -'Why do you want to play chess with me?' -'That's up to me.' -'Alright, for my sake.' And they sit down. -'Until the game is over, I may live. If I checkmate you, I am free.' With no answer, the knight hides two pawns and Death chooses a hand. -'You play black.' -'That's good. I love black.' The film still shows the moment the board is turned. They were facing it from the sides and now are turning it according to the drawing of lots. It is just beautiful, I only realized it running through some stills, how they are both doing it together.
life is a miracle
I suddenly had the idea I could set up the chess table my dad made in the sixties or early seventies in front of our chess shelf. It fits well into the room! Picking up where I had left my studies in 1987, I opened Orban's Latvian gambit game collection. I took a board and pieces out of the shelf and played through a couple of games. 
And later, the first guy who saw the ensemble carried in a second chair and soon we were playing the first game on Dad's old table here
This Soviet set makes me think that nobody, maybe 70 or 80 years ago, had two sets, there and then. Collecting, I'm responsible. How will ungewichtets schwereloser Schachzirkus deal with it? 
The board that came with the pieces is a resin fake leather board with golden squares.. !
The unusual colours led me to set up two black sides in pic one
A first casual game I played with a kid. She took off her king after 10 moves 'because now you can never mate me!' Clever kid.. She ran off to play. Pic three, with the king in place again, after a friend had taken over, playing, appropriately, with disregard for material.