Chess is one of the most intricate and complicated strategy games ever created. People spend their entire lives memorizing thousands of gambits and sacrifices and strategies. This isn’t just a game of “horsey takes pawn.”
Case in point. In chess, if a pawn happens to reach the eighth and final row of the chessboard, the pawn can transform into another piece, most often becoming a queen. Normally, once you reach the end of the chessboard, you take your pawn off the board, find the spare queen in the box of leftover chess pieces, and replace the pawn with that queen. Game continues.
But what if you could design a chess pawn that, upon it reaching the final row on the chessboard, it instantly transforms into a queen right before your very eyes?
What in the Optimus Prime are you describing here?
Well, get this. Someone actually created a chess pawn that transforms into a queen right on the chessboard. Seriously. He used a 3D printer and manufactured all the parts, then came up with the mechanism to automatically make that pawn grow to queen-size and queen-shape. All while remaining as close to the standard chess piece size and construction that chess players expect.
Don’t believe me? Check out his video. Seriously. This guy went step by step, from computer simulation to construction, and we see the entire journey from concept to execution.
Wow.
Heck, this might even inspire me to get involved in chess.
Maybe.
Possibly.
You know what? I’ll just watch this guy work his magic, and that’ll be enough for me. 😀
Chuck The Writer 
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