Chess board and pieces

Chess, checkers, backgammon… A handmade board game, now that’s an original project!
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Nele Ostyn

Forever learning.

Time for supreme concentration! Not to play a game of chess, but to shape your own chess pieces. Because that’s the advantage of handmade: you don’t have to go for the classic shapes. You can choose pawns with clean geometric lines or detailed characters that could come straight out of a storybook. All that remains is to learn the rules of chess …

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