These miniature chess pieces are from a 30-year old electronic Kasparov pocket chess game. The pieces are very tiny, around 2cm high, and in fact remind me how much my eyesight has deteriorated because when I took these out of the box the other day I had a hard time seeing which piece was which.
I basically learned how to play chess on this little board and it was one of the first 'computer' chess games where you played against a machine. It tells you where it wants it's pieces to move to by lighting up two red lights on an X and a Y axis (you can see one glowing here). Suffice to say this little board beat the pants off me for a very long time before I started to improve. The amazing thing is it still works. I pulled it out of the box, clicked the on switch and it sprang into life. If you don't see me for awhile I may just be renewing my acquaintance with Mr Kasparov!
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