Your First Chess Set

You remember your first Chess Set? I do. It was on a cereal box, cut out pieces on the back with an instruction book inside. I believe it was Grapenuts! I must of been about 11 or 12....
(should be manditory on all cereal boxes! lol)

What was your first set?

Originally posted by BluesChord
You remember your first Chess Set? I do. It was on a cereal box, cut out pieces on the back with an instruction book inside. I believe it was Grapenuts! I must of been about 11 or 12....
(should be manditory on all cereal boxes! lol)

What was your first set?

I first learnt on a cheap plastic set belonging to my Dad. The slightest careless movement and the pieces would go everywhere. My sister used this tactic frequently and thus never learnt to finish the game. I beat my Dad when I was about 8 and he never played me again!

My first set was a Oriental one,sent to me as a 15th birthday present from my brother when he was in Vietnam. I still have it.

I decided that i would like a nice chess board (as i'd only played once before when i was very young, the decision was guided more by my desire for a nice thing to have in my living room than for any love of the game).

I looked around casually for one over the course of about 3 or 4 months. The search took in Tunisia, Paris and London. I finally found the perfect set in a small games shop in Camden Market (in London). It's a beutiful brown and of white checked board with co-ordinates around the edge in a black boarder, with slightly magnetic brown and white pieces. Fit's perfectly in my bag where it has remained for the last 3 years so that i never miss the opportunity for a game.

I actually left it on the train (along with my bag) just a couple of weeks ago. Luckily a guy picked it up and was kind enouph to return it to me. Who says people don't look out for each other. Don't know what i'd have done if i lost it. It has huge sentimental value.

I made it myself from paper. Everytime the door opened the board and pieces flew through the air and I had to reset the position .... 😀

My first proper set was a wooden Staunton, bought for me by my Grandad when I was small. It was a rectangular box, inside which the pieces were housed in green velvety stuff (the technical term, I believe). The lid of the box rotated to allow access, and folded out into the board. It was lovely.

Alas, pieces went missing as is always the way. I don't have any of it left; presumably it was thrown away when I lost some pieces.

I've never looked back, though; I now own about 33 chess sets, (although only about 27 are complete: The missing black pawn returns to haunt me).

First chess set was one my grandad had been given while on service on WWII, funded by the readers of the Daily Sketch. It was a very simple, but very nice, wooden Staunton set in a simple wooden box. Don't know what happened to it, but would dearly like to find it again...

I spent some lawn-mowing money at the hobby shop. Fold-in-two cardboard chess board, hollow plastic pieces. Long since thrown out. But I still remember that a white knight got stepped on, such that its base was partially crushed. Then a black rook was lost, and I substituted some surplus car part.
😞

memories......
cool

When I was very young my father worked several months at a time in Germany and on his return sometimes brought gifts. When I was about 3 he brought a little wooden chess set for my sister and I, which I still have.

i practised when i was younger with my dads cheappy hollow plastic set with the obligatory cardboard board, but i got my first board for my 12th or so birthday-twas a travel set! then along came RHP 2 and a half years ago...the set is now under my desk. i use it for practising positions. sometimes...

My first set was one of the plastic starter sets, it came with a book teaching moves and simple tactics.

My first chess set was one which I bought for my Dad with my first ever pay check for babysitting. It is a wooden box with some very funky little blue and red chess players. When my dad died, I inherited it. Recently, the man whom I love with all my heart gave me the most beautiful chess set from Greece. I am going to mail him the chess set I gave my Dad.

Before I was born, my father worked at the U.S. embassy in Khartoum. He brought back with him a chess set with stone pieces. The pieces were fashioned in the likenesses of two African tribes, and the set itself was huge (~3ft on a side). I was always afraid of playing with that set, for fear of breaking any of the pieces.