Chess Board that prevents cat from moving pieces

My wife and I want to play chess OTB, and we have a nice area of the house used for games, etc... We have a chess board that we can use, and we'd like to, throughout the day, walk by, and move a piece so that the game will go on throughout the day. The problem is that we have a cat, and she will inevitably get up there and knock over pieces, etc... So, we'd like to have a setup that is protected from feline tampering. The best we've come up with is to place a chess board in a cake pan or rubbermaid storage box, but then, that's not very attractive to leave sitting out all the time. 

Is there a setup that would be attractive and functional?

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I use one of those square umbrella picnic food covers to protect my board and pieces. Do a search, they come in lots of different sizes.

Have you met a cat? Any cat worth its salt would defeat that in less than a second.

My biggest problem with our cat is I can't leave the chess pieces storage box open, she tries to get in it !

My cat likes to play Paw to King 4.

Good taste.

Maybe we are trying to solve the problem from the wrong direction? Maybe the solution needs to be more bottom up? Perhaps something like this .....

I've suggested getting rid of the cat as a solution.

I'm pretty sure that didn't go over so well...