chess game cosplay panel

[Heavenly_Sin]

Lol, I'd cheat. Light give his king a death note bwhahahaha

[Technowraith]

Are we in the scanticon next year again or are we moving to the Valley Forge Convention Center? If we're in the VFCC, they may have a room large enough for this panel.

Instead of spending money on a fancy mat, you could use some tape and black and white construction paper. If you're lucky, a white tile floor will eliminate the white construction paper - you'll just need black. Lay out a chess board pattern on the floor, taping the black (and white sheets if needed) to the floor. Write the coordinates of every black square (using a metallic-silver color marker) for reference for the "pieces."

To generate interest for next year's cosplay chess panel, post about it in various forums, especially on the cosplay.com forums. You shouldn't have too many issues with finding pieces. If the thrend follows larger cons, you'll get many more applicants for pieces then you will have slots for.

Also remember that a theme should be chosen, and that you will need to select pieces based on certain criteria. If you choose to run this panel, be prepared to do some planning and organization. Just letting you know what will be involved in an undertaking such as this.

[animelrx12]

Yeah, organizing cosplay chess is extremly difficuilt. But I think it would deff. be worth it if you at least tried something like this ( :

[Ramothhe]

Are we in the scanticon next year again or are we moving to the Valley Forge Convention Center? If we're in the VFCC, they may have a room large enough for this panel.

Instead of spending money on a fancy mat, you could use some tape and black and white construction paper. If you're lucky, a white tile floor will eliminate the white construction paper - you'll just need black. Lay out a chess board pattern on the floor, taping the black (and white sheets if needed) to the floor. Write the coordinates of every black square (using a metallic-silver color marker) for reference for the "pieces."

To generate interest for next year's cosplay chess panel, post about it in various forums, especially on the cosplay.com forums. You shouldn't have too many issues with finding pieces. If the thrend follows larger cons, you'll get many more applicants for pieces then you will have slots for.

Also remember that a theme should be chosen, and that you will need to select pieces based on certain criteria. If you choose to run this panel, be prepared to do some planning and organization. Just letting you know what will be involved in an undertaking such as this.

Er, we wont be moving to the VFCC for some years. Its waaay out of our price range >>
Any movement we MIGHT do in the forseeable future would be to the Radisson's Convention/Conference facilities (connected to the Scanticon) first but I cant give any official statements on that yet. Its a big IF. We need to see how this year goes first.

[Lingering Tears]

I would love to participate in cosplay chess (seeing as I had started a topic on it somewhere. . .) and I would most likely cosplay as Colonel Jade Curtiss for it as well ^_^

[animelrx12]

I'd end up having to be sakura haruno seeing as Haruhi Suzumiya doesn't have any special powers? Well then again they say in the anime that she is basically god and made the aliens time travelers and espers come sooooooooooooooooo.....lawl

[The Kohn]

Lovely idea. I would consider doing that. But, from what I've seen, appearently the rules of Cosplay chess differ from real chess. Can someone actually explain to me what the hell cosplay chess is?

[Panda]

As long as we don't get Lelouch to be one of the players, this plan may work.

[Ramothhe]

Lovely idea. I would consider doing that. But, from what I've seen, appearently the rules of Cosplay chess differ from real chess. Can someone actually explain to me what the hell cosplay chess is?

Have you ever heard of Battle Chess or Human Chess that they play at Renaissance Festivals? Its a similar construct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_chess


It requires a bit of space and in the best organized ones, working out choreography and scripting beforehand.
That's why we're going to have to veto it until we have a room that's big enough to accommodate this.

[Technowraith]

I don't know where I'll be in 2010 I can tell you that much. I'm well grounded in competitive chess and that is why Tim suggested me. I am not the best at technical rules with the clock, but that will not affect this panel. I'd still need a lot of help with where to get a gigantic board and rules and such if I am around 2010 and we do this, etc.

You can lay out a board on the floor with black and white tape (make boxes). Or construction paper taped to the floor works too. All the cosplay chess games i've seen use either construction paper or tape. You can probably just get away with black and white tape boxes, as the audience won't see the board. As for move rules, if you're a chess player or are familiar with chess, you know the move rules already. A "player" shouldn't have too many issues with the rules. A "piece" however, may not be familiar with move rules. When you assign a cosplayer to a "piece" give him or her an index card that lists the move rules for his or her piece, as well as where they start at the beginning of the match. "Pieces" should be fairly aware of their surroundings, and will need to remember their positions on the board when they clear off for a battle.

[Batosi07]

I would love to participate. you need a good theme like anime characters vs. manga characters or soomething