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The Zacharus staunton chess set. Chess design that almost seems as if it's living. Maybe it is. Maybe it'll help you become a champ. Or at least you'll enjoy losing. It's a real delight to be able to play the game of Kings with such a great set. The feel of weight and the feel of excellence will surely help you attain excellence too.

Shafran’s hexagonal chess

Submitted by bturner on Wed Aug 25, 2010 7:23am.

It is a hexagonal chess variant developed by Grigorevich Shafran in 1956. It uses an irregular hexagonal shaped chessboard. It uses the standard set of pieces including an extra pawn and a bishop. The board has 9 files and 10 ranks with 71 hexes ... Read more »

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Chess with four camps in a board

Submitted by bturner on Tue Aug 3, 2010 11:01am.

Enochian chess is a four-handed chess variant with four camps developed under the control of many people. It is finalized by S.L.MacGregor Mathers with its rules entirely completed. It uses a board which is shaded with different colors to represen... Read more »

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Why would anyone prefer a themed chess set over staunton?

Submitted by bturner on Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:22am.

Chess sets are excellent collector items that can last for several generations if properly taken care of. Many chessmen and collectors would prefer themed chess sets over Staunton not exactly to have better game experience but for something else. ... Read more »

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Introducing the Original King Charles set of chess pieces

Submitted by bturner on Mon Jul 12, 2010 1:23am.

Rosewood is one of the best wood materials for chess pieces. It is hard and very difficult to carve on. It is usually normal to see chess pieces made of rosewood way above the normal price range of chess sets made of inferior wood material. Howeve... Read more »

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Chess Ad Opportunites

Submitted by bturner on Mon Aug 3, 2009 5:23pm.

ChessBaron now has advertising opportunites for your chess site. Look at: http://www.chessbaron.co.uk/banner_examples.php to see which one suits you and your site best - then tell us how much you want per month! Read more »

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Post JS Chess Advert

Submitted by bturner on Mon Aug 3, 2009 4:36pm.

Have a banner for a chess store for anyone to post on their (or someone else's) chess site. If you can take or post a js line 70 characters long (8 words) I'd be happy to pay for it, tell me how much. Example is at: http://chess-sets.veryboring.co... Read more »

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Electronic Chess

Submitted by bturner on Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:00pm.

Wow - a great product over at ChessBaron - an enhanced Novag Citrine - superb pieces to compliment the new superb Citrine. After their end of 2007 problems Novag now have a better quality Citrine and ChessBaron have innovated again by producing a ... Read more »

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New Excalibur Handheld Chess Computer In-Stock

Submitted by bturner on Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:05am.

Chessbaron.co.uk now has the new Excalibur handheld in stock! The previous version of this was the best available but Excalibur have improved it further by adding a backlight. Here's the URL: http://www.chessbaron.co.uk/chess-CM2012.htm -... Read more »

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New Desktop Chess Computer Soon

Submitted by bturner on Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:14am.

Someone's really trying hard over at Excalibur! After the promise of the best handheld chess computer the NY22 as seen at http://www.chessbaron.co.uk/NY22-Excalibur-Talking-Touch.php - now they're promising us a new desktop to beat al... Read more »

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Chess Company For Sale

Submitted by bturner on Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:34pm.

ChessBaron.com for Sale   ChessBaron is an established brand in the world of online chess retailing. It has traded for more than 3 years and established operations in the USA, UK, France and Canada.   Now there is a unique opportunity to... Read more »

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