The image to the right is a castle, a knight and two pawns from what is claimed to be the tiniest chessboard – and chess set – ever built by a team of students at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Each of the pieces is roughly 50 micrometres across, and the board itself is 435 micrometres wide. Each piece is designed to be gripped and moved by a tiny robot arm, meaning that the chess set is playable – although a checkmate on this board might be the smallest victory in the history of chess.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Checkmate !!
The image to the right is a castle, a knight and two pawns from what is claimed to be the tiniest chessboard – and chess set – ever built by a team of students at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Each of the pieces is roughly 50 micrometres across, and the board itself is 435 micrometres wide. Each piece is designed to be gripped and moved by a tiny robot arm, meaning that the chess set is playable – although a checkmate on this board might be the smallest victory in the history of chess.
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