If you’ve ever played chess or even checkers, you’ve probably thought about making a board that lets a computer play you without having to enter your moves and look at the board on a screen.

LEGO Chess seemed, at least in my mind, a given – an easy, marketable way to make bricks accessible to ... was bigger and better in every way. The board itself was two feet long on all sides ...

In Star Trek franchise, there is no dearth of interesting props and the tri-dimensional chess is one such artifact that continues to spark curiosity among the Trekkies.