The thing that I've owned throughout my life and criss-crossed the land with, is a small electronic chess set. It works on two AA electric batteries and has eight contrasting skill stages. Naturally after many years the whites are a bit yellowed and I've misplaced a king along the way, but mostly and an exchange of batteries occasionally it has been with me since I was fifteen years of age.

My chess set has inhabited in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Alaska and New York. It endured marriage and survived children. It stays patiently in a cupboard for me to take time for a game. Of course I've never done it justness, only ever making to skill grade five and for most of the time being adequate at level 3 or 4, simply it has been a lasting friend. It's difficult to think a chess set could be built in 1964 and carry on until today, but it was and it is still present waiting to play!

There are numerous unique and beautiful chess sets in the united states, they can be a fun item to collect or to give as gifts. I have seen gorgeous pieces in the bazaars of Turkey and Israel and in the market places of India. They appear to be a global happening. These moderately priced sets made from wood, marble or other local materials can be lovable conversation chessmen or decorative elements, even if one does not play chess.

Additionally, one can discover chess pieces that are designed after a assortment of themes, from civil war chess sets representing the North and South to those based on books and flicks, such as Lord of the Rings.

An ancient, better that vintage, chess set on the bottom ledge of the wash room in my parents' household in a worn green box is nothing prize seekers would submit to Antiques Roadshow for an estimation. Nonetheless, this set of red and black chess pieces, with the strong feel of even the pawns, is priceless.

In my past are memories of childhood, an uncle who kicked the bucket after I left grammar school, and hours learning the game and playing with my smaller sister. Instead of maturing into chess, I outgrew it, more things going on and little patience as I went toward my mid life. This chess set provokes priceless remembering beyond the well-worn board and well worn pawns.

I remember when I was a youth that my father would just on the rarest occasion bring out the family chess set. I was perpetually so charged to see the hinged wooden box with the black and bronze two inch checkers on it. This wasn't your garden variety chess set, this was a entirely wooden hand crafted set.

I can think of each and every piece with extraordinary detail, the knights, so demanding and drastic. The rooks fastidiously straight cylinders with the tiniest details displaying several hours of work. I still own that chess set, it's missing a few chess men nowadays, but I still can't wait to show it to my sons when they are old enough to treasure it.