{"id":2177,"date":"2015-11-25T14:32:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T13:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2015-11-25T14:32:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T13:32:03","slug":"the-chess-set-where-form-follows-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2015\/11\/25\/the-chess-set-where-form-follows-function\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chess set where Form follows Function"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>When discussing rules and fiction in games, I invariably show a picture of
\nthe beautiful\u00a0Bauhaus chess set<\/a>, where the superfluous ornamentation and fiction of the standard chess set has given way to shaped pieces meant to indicate how each piece moves. And it is easy to illustrate\u00a0how some pieces signal well – the bishop, the rook – where others\u00a0quickly fail. How are you supposed to deduce en passant<\/a><\/em> from the\u00a0cube that is the pawn?<\/p>\n

Artist Nova Jiang\u00a0has now one-upped Josef Hartwig considerably with her\u00a0Orthogonal\/Diagonal<\/a> art piece. Here, Jiang not only makes a better version of the pawn in Western chess (the pawn’s\u00a0diagonal attacks are now suggested by the form), the work also includes a range of Asian chess variants.<\/p>\n

\"Nova<\/a>
Western chess<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Shatranj\"<\/a>
Shatranj<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And of course –\u00a0we never get to quite deduce\u00a0the entirety of game rules from the shape of the pieces, but it’s just\u00a0interesting to see that\u00a0the\u00a0basic question of how to shape chess pieces does not need to be left to the history books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When discussing rules and fiction in games, I invariably show a picture of the beautiful\u00a0Bauhaus chess set, where the superfluous ornamentation and fiction of the standard chess set has given way to shaped pieces meant to indicate how each piece moves. And it is easy to illustrate\u00a0how some pieces signal well – the bishop, the … Continue reading “The Chess set where Form follows Function”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}