Post Race!

[homer13j]

Personally I'd rather have a race car bed. But that's just me.

I'm not getting the caption: "Would You Like To Date At Here..."

[Gruff]

Yeah. Didn't see that until after I linked the post.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Definition of Boat: A hole in the water into which you pour money.

[FunkyDexter]

I... Want... That... Bed!!!!

[Shaggy Hiker]

Hopefully, it's a water bed.

[Shaggy Hiker]

On second thought, perhaps it shouldn't be a water bed. Maybe you don't want your boat filled with water when you want to engage in wreckless behavior.

[Gruff]

Here is the Bed I made for my wife and I when we were first married.

It was made to hold a Queen size box spring and mattress.
It stood about 50" to the mattress surface.

The material was clear pine. 2" stock (1.5" dressed).

Head board and foot board were laminated 2x12"
Side boards were 2x12"
Legs were laminated 2x6"

I carved a heart and vines in both the head board and foot board.
I show it here in different woods just to show the construction.

It is a bit rough as I modeled this all from memory.

[FunkyDexter]

That's actually pretty romantic. Good for you, sir.

[Gruff]

That was the intent.
She wanted one of those Paul Bunyan giant beds.
We couldn't afford one so I made this one for under $100.00 US.

I had to build a loose set of steps so she could climb in.

Turned out really nice.
When we sold it in a yard sale after 15 years it went for about $700.00. Not a bad profit.

I added the heart to my model. Should be a bit smaller though.

[dday9]

Dang, I'd say so. Have you considered going into the bed frame making business?

[Shaggy Hiker]

I don't like footboards. Mattresses are just too doggone short.

[Gruff]

Cost of good wood these days is through the roof. So no. I'd have to charge too much.
Not to mention some place to build, Large power tools, Etc...

Maybe when I get that giant 3D printer...

[Bonker Gudd]

Why have 3D when you could have 7D next year.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Inflation isn't high enough to get to 7D in a year. We'd be lucky to make it to 4D by next year, and Europe will be lucky if they can avoid sliding back to 2D by next year.

[homer13j]

"This place looks expensive."

[FunkyDexter]

If Microsoft get involved we might jump straight to 10D

[dday9]

"This place looks expensive."

I love how it has 1 + 1 = 2 in the background.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I like the yellow cube even further in the background.

[Gruff]

Dang! And I was just getting used to 3D chess.

[Gruff]

Did I mention I came up with a spiral game of chess as a teenager?
Milton Bradley was not interested. (Go figure.)

You had a round board divided into eight segments and eight rings.
One of the radial lines was considered an edge of the board, so un-crossable.

You could set up the board two different ways.
1) Black and white back to back against the radial edge.
You played around the arc.
2) One side around the center and one around the edge.
You played radially.
In both versions the bishops spiraled in and out.

[dday9]

I love chess so I hate to say it, but I could not follow what you're saying.

[Gruff]

You can think of it as a distorted standard chess board.

2) You line up your men around the center ring and the opposing men around the outer ring

You cannot cross the vertical red line at the bottom.
(In the center both rooks start positions would be in against the vertical red line.)

All other chess rules apply.

Pawns move radially
Rooks travel around rings or radially.
Knights (You figure it out.)
Bishops spiral in or out
Queens move around rings, radially or spiral in or out
Kings one board area in any direction.

(You could also play checkers on such a board.)

[dday9]

That is insane. How'd you come up with something like this?

[Gruff]

Probably too many hours watching the time tunnel on TV.
(God bless Irwin Allen.)
Or spock playing star trek 3D chess.
Or reading Edgar Rice Boroughs "The chess men of mars".
(They used a 100 square board.)
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[Gruff]

I also made a vertical chess board like a free standing wall. the pieces where made from round dowels and Identifiable from either end.
(Think of gluing black and white queen pieces together at the base.)

You pushed them through holes in the board squares.
I painted them black and white on each half so that both players saw themselves as white.

This was long before PC's and electronic chess was available to the masses.

[Shaggy Hiker]

We used to play cylinder chess back in HS, which is pretty similar to what you describe. It is as if the board was rolled into a cylinder. Otherwise, all the rules were the same. Diagonals became really long, as a bishop could go off one side, come back onto the other side, and so forth.

Another variation we played, which I really like, was called BugHouse. This required two teams of two playing on two boards simultaneously. For any team, one member played white on one board while the other member played black on the other board. As each player took pieces, they'd give the pieces to their partner. Therefore, if the white player took a black piece, he'd give it to his partner, who was playing black. As a turn, a player could add a piece to the board that they had received.

This created some fantastic strategies. Sacrifices were trivial, because you'd be getting back various pieces, so a sacrifice wasn't forever. Furthermore, you NEVER exposed your king, because a new piece could be placed on any open square, which meant that the kind was always threatened. In fact, the game continued until a king was taken. Checkmate can't exist when new pieces could be added, and check was never declared. Generally, this meant that games were fast, with pieces being traded back and forth rapidly. Sometimes, I wouldn't know that the game was over until my partner handed me their opponents king. Strategy is bizarre when the number and existence of pieces can change at a moments notice.

I forget whether pawns could be promoted to queens. I think they couldn't. They became pawns after being taken, though.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I remember one game of bughouse where I was trading sacrifices with my opponent. We were basically just slaughtering each others pieces in the expectation of getting them back. After a bit of play, we noticed that we were both down to a king and one or two other pieces. Neither one of us had gotten a thing back. Upon looking at the other board, we realized that both of our partners had taken on mirroring strategies: They castled their kings to opposing corners of the board, then had been building rings of defense around them. As we had handed them pieces, they had placed them into the defensive rings, with neither one making a single offensive move. We had to tell them to knock it off and start attacking, because we were down to a stalemate on our board and lacked enough pieces to keep playing.

[dday9]

I use to play BugHouse too, although we called it something else(that I cannot remember).

That was fun.

[Gruff]

Should have been called Zombie chess since the pieces rose from the dead. :/

Here is the vertical board. Your opponent sees the other side of the board.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm failing to see the point in vertical chess. It seems like both are seeing the same thing, so how is it different from a regular game of chess....other than the fact that it takes up more space and requires twice as many pieces?

[dday9]

I could see it, where if you move your piece then it moves a piece of theirs(opposite end). All moves would be valid because both pieces would it's basically the same only inverted.

[Gruff]

Nope. Shaggy had it in one.
No advantage or difference from normal chess.

The point was to view the board as if you were looking straight down from the top while
looking straight ahead and sitting across from your opponent.

Hey I was 15!

[dday9]

[Shaggy Hiker]

If you could move both your pieces AND your opponents pieces, it seems like the game would be over pretty quick...or it would never end at all.

[Mister_Meh]

uuuuuuuuuhhhhhhh.....kewl

[Shaggy Hiker]

Hey, look at that! Another lunatic has just entered this asylum.

[dday9]

I voted

[dday9]

[Shaggy Hiker]

My polling station was a baptist church. It was a bit disconcerting to put the ballot into that slot and see all the little strips of paper come out. They said it was a security feature, but still....

[dday9]

Lol, that's funny. Do y'all still do paper ballots?