He wanted to play with the Duchamp set in real life. As a bonus, the app included a 3-D recreation of the Duchamp set. In 2010, Scott Kildall created an app that aimed to recreate Duchamp’s style of chess play. But in recent years, some have attempted to recreate the Duchamp Chess Set digitally. It’s a beautiful set.Īlthough it is rumored to still exist in a private collection, no one has seen it in person: The set has existed, for the better part of a century, in just a few photographs. Seemingly inspired by the Staunton chess set, Duchamp’s design visually imparts a sense of weight and even agility to individual pieces: The rook is heavy, cubist, and stalwart, and the knight possesses the the sinuous spiral of a darting sea horse. The design has intrigued both chess players and art aficionados for decades. Until now: 3-D printers have brought it to life.Ĭarved by hand in 1918 in Buenos Aires, the Duchamp Chess Set, as it is known, is a sumptuous Art Deco affair. As for the first set, it has been lost for nearly a century. Instead, it was only ever released as a limited edition One of the only known copies is on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Featuring a simple set of plastic pins that slide into a slotted vinyl board, Duchamp meant for it to be mass-produced. The second was a simple pocket chess set he designed in 1943. But Duchamp did not entirely abandon art: He designed two chess sets.
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