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Combat chess hits the stage

20.07.11

 

Swords held at the ready, two chess pieces circled each other, staring each other down with victory-hungry glares.

With the blink of an eye, a high-speed duel began, swords clanging and tempers rising.

This is how the Six Elements Theatre Company plays chess. Replace pieces with people, add sword fighting and it’s now Human Combat Chess.

The company thrice performed the fervent chess game this weekend at the University Baptist Church in Dinkytown. On Friday, a lively audience cheered and booed over the course of the match.

Apart from providing entertainment to the community, the company’s goal is to raise enough money to balance its budget and take steps to becoming a nonprofit organization. Tickets range between $5 and $20.

Mike Lubke, one of the company’s founders and the show’s coordinator, directed Human Combat Chess for his senior project as a University of Minnesota theater major in 2009. Taking the experience he gained from his project, Lubke revamped the show and presented the newest version as more of a sporting event than a “fight club,” as he described the original work in 2009.

Source: Minnesota Daily

Chess Pieces- News


New theory on chessmen
Herald Scotland - Aug 02, 2011
New theory on chessmen
The archaeologists working at the excavation say that the chess piece is Icelandic and that it is from 12th or 13th century, which puts it in the same time space. This shows that people in Iceland played chess at this time with pieces figured like the

New Theory: The Lewis Chess Pieces Stem from Iceland
IcelandReview - Jul 31, 2011
New Theory: The Lewis Chess Pieces Stem from Iceland
The discovery of a chess piece at Siglunes reported yesterday has strengthened engineer and chess enthusiast Gudmundur G. Thórarinsson in his belief in his new theory that a remarkable set of chess pieces, the Lewis Chessmen, is of Icelandic origin.

LensRentals builds a chess set out of DSLR lenses
SlashGear - Jul 22, 2011
LensRentals builds a chess set out of DSLR lenses
They decided to break out the tiles and made a chess board and then used all the lenses for the chess pieces. I don't know anything about chess other than it looks rather boring to me. The lenses in white are Canon offerings and the ones in black are

Kegg's Candies chocolate chess set makes the list of the most amazing objects
CultureMap Houston - Jul 30, 2011
Amongst a Godiva mailbox, a BMW, a miniature castle and even a couple of chocolate rooms (one by Karl Lagerfeld), CNBC lists a chess board of chocolate complete with gourmet milk and dark chocolate chess pieces by Kegg's, which has been making

Answering the questions of today's game - part 1
Los Angeles Times - Jul 25, 2011
These questions and answers are more about the glue that holds the game together, not the chess pieces deployed once the ball is tipped. Below is the first installment of a two-part series with the conclusion coming next week.