Designer Marco Marcovici is working on a “democratic” chess set where all the pieces are equipped with little cameras, and they can look around the board and discuss strategy with each other, and the player. I love this idea because a) it's so needlessly futuristic and cool b) it's like real-life Wizard Chess from Harry Potter! and c) I don't know how to play chess, so advice from tiny robots could only help.

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The Best Links:

1. DEMOCRATIC CHESS
2. Democratic Chess: Get Inside A Pawn’s Head!
3. Democratic Chess Set Is Cripplingly Bureaucratic
4. Chess set wherein the pieces kibbitz to each other and to you
5. Chessmen that debate every move

SPORTS BUZZ: Brawn and brains combine in a hybrid sport that is equal parts aggression and strategy. This is officially the most awesome sport ever: Five rounds of boxing are interspersed between 6 rounds of chess. It’s our favorite new take on chess since Wu Chess .

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1. Nikolai Sazhin is the New Chess Boxing Champion of the World!
2. World Chess Boxing Organisation
3. Last Year’s World Chess Boxing Championship
4. “Chess boxing is a hybrid sport which combines the sport of boxing with games of chess in alternating rounds.”