You've seen this before—we all have. The glass chess set is not only horrendous and impractical, but it's also everywhere. It's like a nightmare that won't go away.
While the glass chess set is physically ugly, its most outrageous aggression is against the players' ears. The sound of glass pieces sliding on top of a glass board is like a chalk screech that pierces your ears and scars your soul. On top of that, you can't even flip the table after a tilting losing streak without shattering the chessboard and getting a few stitches (and maybe a lawsuit from your wounded opponent).
Only a person with no sense of self-preservation could create a board game made out of glass. Following that logic, why don't we throw all caution to the wind and start selling glass Jenga or even glass Dominoes? I'm sure it would be as safe and pleasant as glass chess.
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The Trojan Horse
This is another classic that anyone who plays chess has seen at some point. I like to call it the Trojan Horse. You just want to play chess, but somehow, you end up with a bunch of checker pieces.
"But what's the harm?" you might wonder. "After all, you're still getting a chess set." Well, my innocent chess-playing reader, that's exactly what they want you to think. Just like the Trojans when they brought a strangely heavy wooden horse into their homes, getting one of these sets could be your demise.
The pieces are usually way too big and light, so you'll spend half your clock trying to move and rearrange the pieces that bump into each other. But even worse, just having checker pieces lying around might give people the wrong idea. Can you imagine if someone said they were too tired of chess, and maybe you could play a round of checkers now?
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The Expensive Set With A Decapitated Horse
While the makers of this chess set claim that their knights "resembles a horse grazing his pastures," I personally think their knights resemble The Godfather. I pray that I never wake up with that knight on my bed. That would be scary. And why is the knight the only piece that's portrayed realistically, while everything else is stylized to look like an ice cream cone? That's nonsense, just like paying $500 for a set like this.
Which of these chess sets you think are bad ?
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The Classic Glass Set You Can't Escape
You've seen this before—we all have. The glass chess set is not only horrendous and impractical, but it's also everywhere. It's like a nightmare that won't go away.
While the glass chess set is physically ugly, its most outrageous aggression is against the players' ears. The sound of glass pieces sliding on top of a glass board is like a chalk screech that pierces your ears and scars your soul. On top of that, you can't even flip the table after a tilting losing streak without shattering the chessboard and getting a few stitches (and maybe a lawsuit from your wounded opponent).
Only a person with no sense of self-preservation could create a board game made out of glass. Following that logic, why don't we throw all caution to the wind and start selling glass Jenga or even glass Dominoes? I'm sure it would be as safe and pleasant as glass chess.
2
The Trojan Horse
This is another classic that anyone who plays chess has seen at some point. I like to call it the Trojan Horse. You just want to play chess, but somehow, you end up with a bunch of checker pieces.
"But what's the harm?" you might wonder. "After all, you're still getting a chess set." Well, my innocent chess-playing reader, that's exactly what they want you to think. Just like the Trojans when they brought a strangely heavy wooden horse into their homes, getting one of these sets could be your demise.
The pieces are usually way too big and light, so you'll spend half your clock trying to move and rearrange the pieces that bump into each other. But even worse, just having checker pieces lying around might give people the wrong idea. Can you imagine if someone said they were too tired of chess, and maybe you could play a round of checkers now?
3
The Expensive Set With A Decapitated Horse
While the makers of this chess set claim that their knights "resembles a horse grazing his pastures," I personally think their knights resemble The Godfather. I pray that I never wake up with that knight on my bed. That would be scary. And why is the knight the only piece that's portrayed realistically, while everything else is stylized to look like an ice cream cone? That's nonsense, just like paying $500 for a set like this.
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