User blog comment:Melonballmel/Chess Pieces Signifigance/@comment-16763585-20130902182120

This was quite the hot point on the chatroom after the episode aired. There were two pawns, two knights, two bishops, two rooks, a queen, and a king for each color, leaving a total of twenty pieces to choose from. The king depending on what system is used can be worth infinite points or one, so how that plays out in this scenario is unknown at this time. We also wondered if maybe pairs with matching pieces would be put in groups of four since there were so many identical pairs.

As of right now I suspect that there isn't any significance. Thanks to a collective effort of the chat, we found that the pieces missing from the pedastals actually changes between scenes. I can't remember the exact numbers, but I think two gold and one black piece are missing when Blake and Yang arrive, and when they are looking around, there is only one gold piece missing and three black pieces. This inconsistancy might be fixed for the youtube upload of the episode, but I don't think Monty Oum would allow for that if the detail was something important.