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Chess Chipper
King Edward, Queen Edward, Bishop Edward, Knight Edward, Rook Edward and Pawn Edward. | |
A cleverly designed knife/peeler used exclusively to facilitate the encarvulation of chess pieces directly from raw potato.
Results can be fried, baked, or used raw to augment or complete chess sets made from more traditional materials.
Banned from tournament play due to the temptation of knocking
up a sneaky bishop and insinuating it to A5 when nobody is looking.
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The psychological effect of your opponent eating your pieces when they're taken could be interesting. |
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Hmmm. Smothered mate (smothered in gravy). |
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(King Edwards vs Sweet Potato for piece contrast?) |
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I was thinking of those blue/purple potatoes for colour differentiation, but sweet potato, yams, turnips, suedes, even beetroot might all form an effective foundation for a tuber based chess set. |
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The alternating squares could have blobs of ketchup on them. |
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Egad, this is a winner, zen-tom. I would love to play
chess in the kitchen with someone while making a
huge Sunday meal. While I whittle, they could
muddle. Wonderful. |
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You could white castle your burger king. |
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The prawns would start to smell after a bit though |
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[+] I like the idea, but would prefer all the pieces be edible -- having some wooden/plastic pieces on the board, and some tuber pieces, will surely lead to someone munching on something they oughtn't. |
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Just found this. Awesome. [tom], you thought of
this two weeks before my birthday, and yet, where
was it? In fact, you've missed another since, and still
no Chess Chipper in my kitchen drawer! |
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Despite your lax approach to invention, this
deserves more bunnage, entonces, here's mine [+] |
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What would be properly invented, in this instance would be a more general purpose potato lathe, upon which all manner of tubers could be "turned" to create chess-pieces, miniature bannister-poles, chair-legs, bowls, vases and other such forms. |
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Potato Lathe? Spud Whittler. Hang on, wasn't he a C&W star of the 1970s? |
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When using this device hurriedly to add pockmarks and facial hair to your opponent's queen, and slipping, this would become encarvululation. |
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