chess piece

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Koohii stories:

1) [dingomick] 11-3-2007(210): Chess piece = wooden rook.

2) [Zactacular] 17-9-2007(34): The machine at the chess piece factor takes in whole trees and spits out thousands of chess pieces into the barrel.

3) [Raichu] 25-4-2007(28): Ever seen those huge chess games in parks? The large wooden chess pieces need to be carted in a shopping trolley.

4) [esaulgd] 2-6-2008(13): A bushel basket full of wooden chess pieces in the house of a pro shogi player.

5) [Renaissance] 14-3-2010(8): Pokute play chess high up in the trees, and that's where they store the chess pieces too. (primitive explanation http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/6628/pokute3vp.gif ).