Chess Board and Players

**gray** · 23 July 2013, 12:36 AM

Very creative, Ron.

**csehz** · 23 July 2013, 06:36 AM

Ron that is super idea and as you created too. Yes as John mentions the a1 square should be black officially and the black queen and king opposite on d8 and e8, but that just directs the viewer to direction that this is already abstract and the dimension of art

Anyway probably the Extrude tool should absolutely fit to illustrate chess positions, because no need to turn the figures when they are ready, which can be challenging at lego figures. Maybe the knight stays as tricky but the other ones are symmetrical. If I had a chess site sure would illustrate like you showed.

These examples hopefully help to build the community too, more people has sure more ideas. For example for me some breakthrough was in inspiration, when I put an innocent question on TG how to extrude a sphere, noone knew but Steve showed an example that do not give up it is possible to extrude an as if with playing the lights

And from that point, knowing that in drawings theoretically with basic shapes like a circle, a triangle and a rectangle, everything should be able to done..

Definitely agree that the extrude tool deserves more attention, more things can be done with it than not and let's focus on that side.

**Big Frank** · 23 July 2013, 09:02 AM

excellent piece ron

**Ron Duke** · 23 July 2013, 05:08 PM

Thanks everyone. Obviously, I'm not a chess player. But I hope Zsolt's, mine and others' examples will inspire more to experiment with the very useful tool.

Is this correct, then?

**Ron Duke** · 23 July 2013, 08:36 PM

Ok. The guys pointed out some other mistakes, so here's another attempt to get it right.

**csehz** · 24 July 2013, 05:06 AM

Yes the black queen is on her place now

Chess is a wonderful game, was it hard technically to change the color of the squares? Assumingly maybe 8x8 squares so maybe recolor clicking 64 times?

In that case sorry that these were mentioned

**angelize** · 24 July 2013, 06:15 AM

This is a very nice example of what can be done with the extrude tool.

**Ron Duke** · 24 July 2013, 07:33 PM

Zsolt,
Fortunately, I was able to flip it. Can't remember if I flipped it once or twice, but I'm sure Steve could tell you.

Originally Posted by csehz

Yes the black queen is on her place now

Chess is a wonderful game, was it hard technically to change the color of the squares? Assumingly maybe 8x8 squares so maybe recolor clicking 64 times?

In that case sorry that these were mentioned