George Duke wrote on Sat, Feb 2, 2013 04:32 PM UTC:
Eight boards of this device are historically popular for simultaneous Chess
exhibition. Paul Morphy did eight boards all the time blindfold,
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1015464. The devices besides 3d
could be used for eight simultaneous games at once, letting the opponents
step up to each board in turn instead of the Chess master.
Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_exhibition.