Phantom of the chessboard

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

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As Brownlee notes, this is a “bog-standard” robotic chess board whose automatic movement feature is loud and grinding. But you know you want it. After all, it’s being endorsed by a strangely disquieting man in a Phantom of the Opera mask.

You can buy the game here but you might as well just go play an old man in the park. It will be quieter and you won’t have to worry about your friend who is really into musicals stealing the box for furtive stroking and cooing.

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