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EBayis not the best source. You can see some Bamboo sets from Indonesia there:
I checked ebay, because I was looking for them being sold commercially. Some photos on your site are not evidence of this. So, my point remains. Figurine Chess pieces are being sold commercially, whereas bamboo Chess sets seem to be just a makeshift craft people without manufactured sets sometimes resort to. It's not as though people are just using RPG figurines to play Chess with because they lack real Chess sets. Companies manufacture and sell figurine Chess sets, and sometimes for a lot more than regular Staunton sets.
So what the point? I don't understand this discussion at the end. It is becoming upsetting. You completely misunderstood me and you drive me where I don't want to go.
I prefer to stop.
I was looking at V. R. Parton's description of Gorgon Chess, and it turns out that the Immobilizer is just a weaker version of Parton's Gorgon. Both the Gorgon and the Immobilizer move as a Queen, though the Gorgon can also capture as one, and instead of just immobilizing any adjacent enemy piece, it can immobilize any enemy piece within its direct gaze, which means on a space it could move to.
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These images are for illustrating the Piececlopedia articles with appropriate imagery of possible ways to portray a piece. I do not see any point in moving them to a separate page.