You probably won’t find another set with as straightforward of a cool factor as this one. So much of playing chess well comes down to being able to see the board as a whole without forgetting about individual pieces, and this giant set solves both those problems. Being able to actually walk on the board might even help you improve your game. If you have some chalk for the street or nontoxic paint for the grass, you can sit out on the lawn playing chess all afternoon.
You don’t even really have to worry about a board. We never pegged chess as a summery, outdoorsy game, but we have to admit, this set it making a solid argument to the contrary. If you’re up for the challenge though, here are the rules.
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It seems like you have to forget how to play the original before you can learn this one. Learning it is a different story though and being able to play chess before this might not work in your favor. So naturally that at this point, people might be born with the ability to recognize this game. Picturing Kirk and Spock battling it out on this multi-leveled set comes naturally. This chess set is so iconic, people who don’t know anything about Star Trek know exactly where this set first appeared. To be fair, no one’s going to be cheering your chess match on like they would have the old Roman gladiators, but if you wanted raucous cheers, you wouldn’t have gotten into chess. Each piece is solid pewter with a resin mould for the amphitheater surroundings. The Colosseum set is probably the most involved set on this list, featuring an intricately designed board with pieces to match. They say chess is a game of war, but that didn’t sink in until we saw this set. So a perfectly reasonably sized chess set to hang on your wall. There’s not much size reference, so it might look like this is an enormous, man-sized vertical chess set, but it’s actually only about two and a half by three and a half feet. The pictures can be a little deceiving though. Chess because it’s a chess set, art because, well, look at it. This is a two birds, one stone type situation for anyone who loves chess and is currently in the market for some top quality wall art. It’s a crazy simple idea, but it does a great job updating a format that hasn’t changed for literally hundreds of years. The pieces do most of the balancing themselves, but the board helps with its concave top, with each square turning into a rounded divo that keeps the pieces centered. The pieces do exactly what the name says, wobbling at the slightest touch or movement but never falling or rolling away. Regular chess is the perfect game for fidgeters, but this set takes things to the next level. The board has some changes as well, with subway tokens for black tiles and Spalding High Bounce Balls as the white. The pieces pay tribute to the most notable places in the Bronx, including Loew’s Paradise, Yankee Stadium, the Botanical Gardens, the Bronx Zoo, and Kingsbridge Armory, with the Fordham Baldies, an old Bronx gang, making an appearance as the pawns. It’s always hard to tell when a product comes from genuine tribute or shameless pandering, but in this case, we don’t care. You could almost build a house with these as the inspiration for the design and decoration. They’re beautifully simple, solid brass constructions with either pewter or bronze finishes that look like stylistic interpretations of the long thin women that frequented Parisian cafes in the 1920s. They can use as many fancy words on this board as they want, but our main attraction to this set is the pieces. $50īrass Art Deco Men on Red Grain Decoupage Board Though, there is the risk that you’ll get ganged up on pretty quickly, which is sure to end some friendships. That’s not going to happen with this board. It still counts as a win, but we felt a little cheap about it. We’ve lost (and won) plenty of games where our opponent boxed themselves in without even realizing it. We’re also very attracted to how there aren’t any corners. Keeping track of two players on a board is difficult enough, though the third person does give us someone else to blame for cheating us out of an easy win. Now, chess is as much a style choice as it is an intellectual pursuit. They’re changing up pieces, boards, and sizes, even going so far as to mess with rules and styles of the game. We can’t tell you how much it’s changed in those 1500 years, but we can tell you modern people are putting their own spin on it. The game of chess is a timeless classic, challenging players from 6th century India all the way up to today.
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