Rebel Fury set

Rebel Fury is one hell of a chess variant. The initial set-up looks like this:

Pieces include Dragons, Capricorns, Gorgons, Harpies, Mimotaurs and Ximaeras. And Furys, which are the 'royal' pieces: they need to be captured to win the game, and each side has two of them ... Most pieces move the same (like the queen in FIDE chess), but have very different powers; full details are here if you're interested

As it's such a crazy chess variant, I was very keen to create a set myself. Surfing around for ideas, I stumbled across a full set of Loka pieces, and these gave me the number and variety I needed for Rebel Fury.

The pieces came in four colours, green, blue, yellow and red, and I decided to use blue and green pieces for one side, yellow and red pieces for the other. Given this amount of colour, I wanted to make a board which was just as colourful, and got myself several sheets of glass mosaic tiles.

A few rainy days were enough to glue the glass mosaic tiles on a piece of plywood, with half the board having red and yellow squares, and the other half green and blue squares. Advancers (pawns) promote once they reach the enemy half of the board, so it makes sense to distinguish between the two halves.

Underside of the board received 'feet' and was painted black.

Those feet raised the board just enough to have mosaic tiles along the edge as well.

So here is the completed board, in all its colourful glory! It's quite heavy as well, by the way; all that glass adds up.

In order to be able to distinguish the pieces more easily, I wrote the first letter of their identity on the underside of their bases.

And all that remains to be done now is to set up the board with all the pieces in their starting position.