I’m going with slightly larger than usual dimensions just so I can cut the size in half easily
King 10 cm
Queen 9 cm
Knight 7 cm
Rook 6 cm
Bishop 8 cm
Pawn 5 cm
I was going to a themed Smiley heads, but after reading a few other posts, having too may chess pieces be too similar makes it hard to see the field set up with just a glance. Instead I will attempt to model the pieces after a Chinese show called Scissor Seven, and if I have too hard of a time trying to do that I’ll go do the standard chess pieces.