Chess Board Made from Chemistry Glassware

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By John Baichtal
Posted 2011/10/05 @ 7:00 am
Category General

Andrew Goodin, a chemistry teacher at Soldan International Studies HS in St. Louis, MO, whipped up this chemistry themed chess board on the fly:

It is a picture of our chemistry themed chess board. We designed it after school today when we realized that many students in our technology club knew how to play chess, but no board was available and game websites were blocked.

They used flasks for pawns, rooks are the tops of pipettes, knights are crucibles, queens are beakers, bishops are 10ml volumetric flasks, and kings are graduated cylinders. Love it!

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0 Responses to Chess Board Made from Chemistry Glassware

Anonymous on October 5th, 2011 at 3:48 pm said:

upon taking a piece resist the motivation to drink its contents (“hm..[smack smack].. perhaps thymolsulphonephthalein …before the rains”)

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Anonymous on October 5th, 2011 at 3:48 pm said:

upon taking a piece resist the motivation to drink its contents (“hm..[smack smack].. perhaps thymolsulphonephthalein …before the rains”)

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Adam Eyring on October 5th, 2011 at 6:27 pm said:

Very clever – I would put the liquids in sealed containers to prevent spills. If you get some cool glassware like custom flasks and seal liquids in them, it will look sweet and you won’t have to refill containers! Also, shouldn’t the title read “Chess pieces made from chemistry glassware”? How about drawing the board right on top of the bench?

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Adam Eyring on October 5th, 2011 at 6:27 pm said:

Very clever – I would put the liquids in sealed containers to prevent spills. If you get some cool glassware like custom flasks and seal liquids in them, it will look sweet and you won’t have to refill containers! Also, shouldn’t the title read “Chess pieces made from chemistry glassware”? How about drawing the board right on top of the bench?

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Anonymous on October 6th, 2011 at 4:17 am said:

The state of US science… still no fusion reactors in our basements or flying cars in our driveways. (Or fusion reactors in our flying cars, for that matter)

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Anonymous on October 6th, 2011 at 4:17 am said:

The state of US science… still no fusion reactors in our basements or flying cars in our driveways. (Or fusion reactors in our flying cars, for that matter)

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Peter Albert Sweeney on October 8th, 2011 at 8:49 pm said:

I have two sets of pieces and I am looking for boards.

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Peter Albert Sweeney on October 8th, 2011 at 8:50 pm said:

I am looking for chess boards.I have pieces for two sets.

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Julian Deverell on October 12th, 2011 at 4:50 pm said:

This gives me an idea. If you could somehow have glass chessmen in the shape of standard Staunton chess pieces that were hollow and filled with different colour liquid it would be an amazing set. You could even fill one with black fluid and another with a white fluid. It would look awesome.

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