Star Trek chess

Here we have a lovely picture sent by skeptic. It is taken from the legendary tv series "Star Trek" and features the Star Trek Chess. You can see the chessmen perched on that strange metal tree, which draws your attention immediately, and then you can't help wondering how the game can possibly be played.

There are several sites on the net in which you can get the rules. Also the setis available in ebay and other sale spots. If the trekkies could develop a whole language, no wonder they could create a set of rules for his special chess.

* The rules at chessvariants.com
* Some more images related to Star Trek Chess

Dominium

Dominium is a pizza franchise with a nice chess logo. Above is the Dominium shop at Talbot st. Dublin. The cuessboard is unusually large (17 x 9) and it qualifies for our "dark-square-on-right-corner" tag. The Knight is neither white nor black, but red.

One cartoon, twelve chesmen

I was reading news at the splendid Susan Polgar's blog, and came across this nice cartoon (btw, this is the news).

Cartoons tend to be friendly-looking. I wonder why there are only six pawns and why one Knight and one Bishop are missing. Anyway, it is a nice set of twelve pieces.

Chess sets in Oban (Scotland)

Last month in Oban (Scotland) I came across a shop window in which they had a couple of chess sets. One of them was a fantasy set and the other represented the Battle of Culloden.
The Battle was fought in 1746 at Culloden, east of Inverness, between the Jacobites and the British Army. Scotland is a land of many battles, and a very important country in the world of chess.

Spassky - Fischer, 1972 . Logo

One of the logos for the match of the century. Its design is very 1970s. An idealized world and a black and white king. The winner of this match would be considered the king of the chess world. So many things have been said about it that I feel lazy to elaborate.

Alabaster chess set in Volterra, Tuscany (Italy)

I saw this chess set in Volterra, a Tuscan town famous for its alabaster. It is an steep chessboard. Tough job for the pawn to reach the 8th rank.

Long game?

I came accross a few chess cartoons by Jerry King. I especially liked the one above, but you can also see: (1, 2, 3, 4 ,5 ), all of them from section "Cartoons" at impressive, if poorly designed "Chessville".

Nothing on the chessboard is very visible . The joke goes around the idea, commonplace outside the chess world, that playing chess takes loooong time... then, those people get impressed by blitz games... even if classical chess takes long I'm always short of time... time is relative