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Florestan
Since: May, 2015
MarqFJA
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23rd Oct, 2016 02:34:50 AM
That's when a game of chess is played with living beings (typically humans) standing in for the chess pieces. It's essentially the converse of the trope I'm looking for.
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What's the trope for when the game pieces of Chess are turned into actual characters? I'm talking about something like a Cast Herd with blatant Chess Motifs, like the main cast of Highschool Dx D. I'm referring to cases like the Chessmon series of Digimon, the Damned Chessmen from Devil May Cry (whose exact relationship with the real-life game of chess is stated to be "unknown" in-universe, i.e. nobody knows if they inspired the game or if it's the other way around), and the living chess pieces from Through the Looking-Glass.
Edited by MarqFJA