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Old 5th January 2012, 07:05 PM   #1
Cassiel is offline Cassiel  Greenland
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Default Tube chess.

This lowlife 12AX7 ate my queen (2A3), how could that be possible?

Vacuum Tube Chess Set - a set on Flickr
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Old 5th January 2012, 07:10 PM   #2
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Old 5th January 2012, 07:39 PM   #3
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Sweet! what to do with all those useless tubes we can't get rid of.

Falls into that "why didn't I think of that?" category, doesn't it?
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Old 5th January 2012, 08:06 PM   #4
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And the Audiofool version

NOS RCA Chess set $6000:-

Always had better luck in chess with my NOS set .
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Old 5th January 2012, 08:43 PM   #5
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Perhaps we could make one using SMD JFETs for Go
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Old 5th January 2012, 09:22 PM   #6
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Brilliant.
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Old 5th January 2012, 09:30 PM   #7
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The entire $1 list was just bought by a Chinese chessmaker .
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