![]() After making a few zebras, I could more or less do it with my eyes closed. “Creating the clay figures was a pretty fast process. Animals are so much fun! She spent at least a hundred hours working on this huge game. She chose animals because she enjoys creating them. Van Overbeek received 202 votes for her original and beautiful design. Although it was Ridder´s favourite, this year he abstained from voting: the winning design remains on display in the museum and there is so little space already! Van Overbeek´s chess game is, of course, made of ceramics, and the pieces represent zebras and giraffes. Ridder also broadened the competition´s rules for her, literally as well as figuratively, because the design is actually too large. The winner of the 2019 edition of the Chess Game Design Competition is ceramist Tigone van Overbeek. This design gives the chess game a completely different dimension. The chessboard is also made of wood, that is to say wooden blocks, and each square has a different height than the squares surrounding it. ![]() In the end, Kolsteren finishes in second place with 181 votes for his three-dimensional wooden chess game ‘Battle in the Hills’. This year´s neck-and-neck race for the €1,000 grand prize between Tigone van Overbeek and Adrie Kolsteren lasted to the very end.
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