Interesting chess set

I was looking at novelty chess sets and came across this Alice in Wonderland chess set. The chess pieces have an opaque mirror finish, when they touch the surface of the board, the piece turns from transparent to reveal the identity of the piece.  When removed from the board, they revert to being opaque and hiding the identity of the piece.  I thought, what an interesting concept.  I am surprised tha they don't have a miliatry version with snipers.  Here is a pic of it...

Has anybody seen other unusual interesting chess sets?

That is pretty cool.

I think the novelty would wearoff fairly quickly.  With "hidden" pieces, I wonder if I can "promote" a pawn to a queen at will or have my king jump around and replace the other pieces.

Always something new under the sun... but that is clever!

Nice, first time I've seen one of these chess sets.

I guess the touch rule is out the window on this one.

Hi, cool set, thanks for sharing it.

Was at a flea market last week, and saw this book, five dollars, seemed like quite a bargain.

It's publication date was 1968, and most of the pieces come from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection in New York City.

It's got tons of photos of sets from antiquity through modern day, along with some really great text about the individual sets and general history of the game and sets.

Some of the sets are very elaborate, some super minimalist, and also lots and lots of themed sets.

The set on the left was made out of bullets in Austria (really gives a new meaning to the term "bullet chess" I know, lame, but I couldn't resist), while the one on the right was fashioned out of coins in Germany shortly after WW1 when German money had become almost worthless.

I tried to get a clear enough shot that you should be able to read the text if you zoom in.

Was actually going to make a forum about it, but thought I'd put some here instead.

If anyone's interested in seeing any more, I'll be happy to comb through it and put up some more pics. 

I'd be weary of touching the king in the second set considering it's similartity to...well.....I'm sure you can guess what.

Oy vey.

I think I saw a set like this in Cosmopolitan magazine.