Tiny chess set built between heartbeats


	Tiny chess set built between heartbeats

JohnWaterman

7-17-2008 1:54 PM

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7-17-2008 4:54 PM

The REAL Napster

Saw some of this miniature type work here on CM a couple of weeks ago? Simply amazing.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7825a50c-7f6d-4447-9590-a5de58173507/BE6A526F-6E7D-4D07-BC17-06B47E7E7742/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/games_and_puzzles/chess/article3842965.ece" href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/games_and_puzzles/chess/article3842965.ece" style="font-size: 11px;">entertainment.timesonline.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/games_and_puzzles/chess/article3842965.ece"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/img/BCBCFB3E-ECD9-4860-81B1-2FDF1C222471" alt="A chess table made of a walnut shell" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/games_and_puzzles/chess/article3842965.ece"> A microscopic chess set no bigger than a match head could be the
smallest board game in the world. The board is 3.5 mm by 2.5 mm and the gold
and silver pieces are 0.15 mm and 0.3 mm high</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/games_and_puzzles/chess/article3842965.ece"><P>
The set is one of the most remarkable works of the Russian micro-miniaturist
Vladimir Aniskin, who has spent a decade perfecting his craft. He uses
powerful microscopes and equipment that he designed himself and says that he
must work between his heartbeats to create the tiny pieces.
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“While working I hold my creation in my fingers,” he said. “Even one’s
heartbeat disturbs such minute work, so particularly delicate work has to be
done between heartbeats.”
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name. His first was a grain of rice inscribed with 2,027 letters. “The rice
grain took three months, camels in an eye of a needle took two months and
camels in a horse hair also took two months,” he said. “Even with these
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