{"id":2453,"date":"2010-08-12T10:25:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T10:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2010-08-12T10:26:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T10:26:26","slug":"electric-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/2453","title":{"rendered":"Electric Chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img title=\"Electric Chess\" alt=\"Electric Chess\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/0810\/electric_chess.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This electric chess set, devised by American architect and competitive chess player, Brent Blake, uses low-wattage transparent, coloured and clear bulbs as chess pieces, on a board formed from low power electrical sockets mounted in plexi-glass.<\/p>\n<p><img title=\"Electric Chess\" alt=\"Electric Chess\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/0810\/electric_chess1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Instead of shape and form, colour is used to distinguish the pieces from each other \u2014 captured pieces are placed in the side sockets which are not powered, implying the message &#8216;lights out&#8217; for those pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a title=\"designboom: Brent Blake - Electric Chess Set\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/weblog\/cat\/8\/view\/11169\/brent-blake-electric-chess-set.html\">designboom<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This electric chess set, devised by American architect and competitive chess player, Brent Blake, uses low-wattage transparent, coloured and clear bulbs as chess pieces, on a board formed from low power electrical sockets mounted in plexi-glass. Instead of shape and form, colour is used to distinguish the pieces from each other \u2014 captured pieces are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}