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08-26-2009 , 12:17 AM

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swingdoc

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Originally Posted by jontsef

my mom's friend was trying to sell a handmade set for around 80K. not sure if he succeeded.

80k dollars?? Was it made out of unicorn horns?

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08-26-2009 , 12:59 AM

#52

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lol I don't remember exactly. I think ivory, gold, silver, etc. he's an artist so it's a work of art.

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08-26-2009 , 06:37 AM

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RoundTower

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I played a game yesterday on a "War on Terror" chess set, which was great. As well as Saddams and Bushes and Osamas etc, there were 747s for the white knights and two sets of twin towers (quadruplet towers?) as the black rooks.

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08-26-2009 , 07:45 AM

#54

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pics?

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08-26-2009 , 09:32 AM

#55

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cant find anything like it on the internet, it came from Turkey.

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08-26-2009 , 03:23 PM

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08-26-2009 , 03:27 PM

#57

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQLKZPzk_2w

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08-26-2009 , 05:09 PM

#58

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQLKZPzk_2w

I actually have a Civil War set cause I'm a life member of the History Channel Club

/geekdom

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08-26-2009 , 07:35 PM

#59

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I actually have a Civil War set cause I'm a life member of the History Channel Club

/geekdom

self pwnage itt

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08-26-2009 , 08:37 PM

#60

swingdoc

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My everyday kickin it at home chess pieces

But one of my poor white pawns has lost his head and I've never managed to successfully heal him. He looks like this:

And I use a Dreuke board:

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08-27-2009 , 01:15 AM

#61

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That's just a casualty of war man...

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08-27-2009 , 01:18 AM

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nice photoshop skills

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08-27-2009 , 03:40 AM

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This one is just ridiculous.

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08-27-2009 , 04:09 PM

#64

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This one is just ridiculous.

W o W

in very bad taste imo

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08-28-2009 , 10:45 PM

#65

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W o W

in very bad taste imo

looks customer made though - which is better then someone selling it

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08-30-2009 , 01:38 PM

#66

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My new favorite chess set.

In Germany they made this, a truly gigantic chess board measuring 400 x 400 metres (1200 x 1200 feet) on its side.

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5722

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08-30-2009 , 05:41 PM

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damn that's huge.

castling queenside could take a good half hour

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08-30-2009 , 06:17 PM

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even worse if you played h8=Q and then realised the queen you wanted to promote to was over on the left hand side of the board.

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09-04-2009 , 07:29 AM

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I hate to say it, but a wireless bluetooth DGT chess set at 950 bucks/pop may be the most balling I've seen -

while I wouldn't go this route, I will admit to really wanting one at one point and time for teh cool factor and playing in Fritz - now I may just buy a live chess computer with live pieces - kinda would like to play the Tandy 1850 again at some point

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09-04-2009 , 07:38 AM

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I played on a DGT set once at the Vienna Open and i must say i didn't really like it. The pieces were HUGE compared to the square size, it looked cluttered. Also, this boards are thick, and i'm not exactly tall when sitting, so i had a bad viewing angle too.

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11-02-2009 , 06:52 PM

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http://www.dia.org/museum_info/chess/gallery.asp#

faberge chess set...pretty bad ass

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11-02-2009 , 09:04 PM

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I hate to say it, but a wireless bluetooth DGT chess set at 950 bucks/pop may be the most balling I've seen -

one problem is that it might make cheating easier. no more need for the cheaters to go to the bathroom to submit their moves.

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11-03-2009 , 02:32 PM

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one problem is that it might make cheating easier. no more need for the cheaters to go to the bathroom to submit their moves.

I don't understand this.

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11-03-2009 , 04:57 PM

#74

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I don't understand this.

At the World Open there were a few incidents. Basically one guy would play, and every few moves he would go to the bathroom to relay the position to his partner. His partner was sitting with a computer somewhere, supposedly in a car close to the building, and would relay the computer's suggestion back to the play thru a radio transmitter.

What I meant was that in the future, when technology advances and bluetooth boards are more widespread, then the cheater won't have to do anything to relay the moves to his partner because the board would do so automatically. All he would need to do is listen in his radio ear piece for the suggestions.

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11-04-2009 , 06:31 PM

#75

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I'll take a picture of this chess set i bought in Mexico for $400. It's at my home in International Falls but I'll take a pic of it when I get back. The board is probably 4x4 and the king is atleast ten inches tall.

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