Three worlds. Forty-eight pieces. No repeats.
Each collection is a complete set of 16 hand-painted originals — king, queen, bishops, knights, rooks, and pawns — unified by a theme and separated by the fact that no two pieces across any collection were ever painted the same way twice. View the full gallery to see every piece in detail.
Sixteen hand-painted gnome chess pieces in full steampunk regalia — The High King, The Verdant Queen, The Violet Sage, The Iron Knight, The Gearwork Bastion, and eight pawns that glow in the dark. Every piece is a singular character that arrived fully formed from the imagination and will not return.
See the collection in gallerySixteen holiday-themed originals including Santa as King, a Christmas Queen complete with cookies, Rudolph and Blitzen as Knights, and the Naughty and Nice List Bishops. A full set of Christmas pawns completes the board. Singular. Festive. Irrepeatable.
See the collection in gallerySixteen spooky originals including Frank (Frankenstein) as King, Elvira as Queen, Egyptian and Mummy Bishops, Werewolf and Dracula Knights, and eight Jack-o-Lantern pawns that — when good Jack-o-Lanterns go bad. A complete board of singular darkness.
See the collection in galleryThe full gallery contains every piece from all three collections — principal pieces and pawns, photographed individually. Each one named, each one described, each one available only once.
Every Checkmate Curiosities set begins as a blank 3D-printed PLA form — raw material, full of potential. What it becomes is decided once, by one hand, and never repeated. Each completed set ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming its singular origin under the Cognitive Sovereignty Studios maker's mark.
Checkmate Curiosities
All works one of a kind