{"id":729,"date":"2017-05-07T08:03:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T08:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=729"},"modified":"2017-05-09T02:56:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T02:56:37","slug":"laser-cutting-rythmomachy-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":"Laser-cutting Rythmomachy Board"},"content":{"rendered":"

This wedding is going to be the culmination of a dream I have had for almost 2 decades: Finally, I will have a professional-grade set for playing Rythmomachy, the Philosopher’s Game!<\/p>\n

I have been having so much fun laser-cutting for the wedding, and putting together activities like a massively distributed crossword puzzle. Last week’s inspiration was to laser cut a board and pieces for Rythmomachy, and I want to share them with all of you.<\/p>\n

What is Rythmomachy<\/a>, you ask? I call it “Chess on steroids”, and one medieval scholar said,

Pythagoras did first invent,
this play as it is thought:
And thereby after studies great,
his recreation sought.
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Here I just want to share my design for a board and pieces. You too can have this for your very own:
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It took about 1 hour on the Berkeley laser cutter I was using. The design is in two files:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Download the board<\/a><\/td>\nDownload the pieces<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

I thought to put etchings on the board to tell you how to set it up, since this has always been one of the greatest barriers to starting a new game.<\/p>\n

Also note that every piece has a version colored dark and light. These need to be glued back-to-back. Each piece starts out as one color, according to the etchings on the board. If it is captured, it’s flipped over and becomes the other player’s piece.<\/p>\n

I put some foot pads on the back and set it up to be flipped closed:
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Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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This wedding is going to be the culmination of a dream I have had for almost 2 decades: Finally, I will have a professional-grade set for playing Rythmomachy, the Philosopher’s Game! I have been having so much fun laser-cutting for the wedding, and putting together activities like a massively distributed crossword puzzle. Last week’s inspiration … Continue reading Laser-cutting Rythmomachy Board<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[10,11],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transience-divine","tag-ifttt","tag-transience-divine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}