Here are some photographs of David Howe's game Xhess,
pieced together from Chess
Construction Set materials. The squares are 2 inch squares of
colored posterboard. Most of the pieces come from my large plastic
Chess set. For the Nightriders, we used knights from David's wooden
Chess set. For the Cannons, we used rooks from another Chess set of
mine. We drew these two pieces from different sets, so that the size
of the piece would reflect its power. Nightriders are stronger than
Knights, but Cannons are weaker than Rooks. David's Chess set was
bigger than mine, but my other set was slightly smaller than my large
one. For the Horsemen, we used pawns from David's Cardinal Super Chess
set. This is because we needed ten, and my set had only eight
Pawns. We couldn't use the knights from my medium sized sets, because
I had only eight of those too. I had 32 medium sized pawns, but his 10
pawns from Cardinal Super Chess were bigger. So we used those. The
dice along the side were used to mark the ranks. Half tiles along the
white side were used to mark the files.
Written by Fergus Duniho. Photographs by David Howe.WWW Page Created: Mon Oct 11, 1999. Last Modified: Mon Oct 11, 1999.
