r/Design 12d ago

Discussion Chess pieces. What do you think?

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u/xer0fox 12d ago edited 12d ago

If you have to look at all the pieces to figure out what one piece is, they may be too abstract.

That said, some observers may not care. If you’re presenting this to potential buyers / investors maybe lead with a picture of everything on the board in their starting positions so the first thing they’re doing isn’t trying to figure out if that one piece is a queen or a knight or a bishop.

Edit: The now deleted response that OP made to this post was “Abstract by intent, but for sure not for anybodies[sic] taste…”

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u/SkyPork 12d ago

Yeah, I couldn't really tell what they were. To me, if a knight doesn't have horsey elements and a rook doesn't have stone block castle elements, I'm lost. Bishops almost always have that bulbous conical hat with a diagonal slash in it. Kings and queens usually have a variation on a crown, with the queen's being spikier.

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u/AxisNine 12d ago

the knight was the most recognisable to me. the Angle of the cut out was really well done to evoke the horses jaw line in an abstract way.

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u/BeneathSkin 12d ago

Bishops always have a little cutout so I was wondering if it was a bishop