The World's Most Interesting Chess Sets

The original strategy game, Chess, has survived quite a while. While the rules haven't changed in that "quite a while" nobody said all chess sets had to look the same. Here are a few of the World's Most Interesting Chess Sets.

I've always wanted a chess set that's unreliable to transport and where the pieces can fall off easily! Thanks, Etsy! 

 Got junk laying around? Crafty? Like chess? Then build your own damn chess set.

Have way too many bullets at your house? Same principle. Just remember that children under three years old can choke on bullets, so be careful.

Considering how Fox owns the rights to The Simpsons for the next 120 years, I think they should at least try to make the most of it.
Update (2018): At this rate, Disney will buy the rights to Chess and license the crap out of it.
Additional Update (2018): I own a Simpsons chess set now. 

Here's some chess pieces from an art piece, called "Good vs. Evil". Only one exists, so I don't think you can play it.

Everyone's here, Gandhi, a firefighter... Che Guevara? Well, I guess good and evil are relative terms, even if they're wrong. And why in the hell is Superman a pawn? I guess it made more sense to make Dr. King the king. Now if only they made Freddie Mercury the queen and Rick Harris the pawns, the balance of the universe would be even. 

 

That's better! They even put Freud in there where he belongs. That bag to his right is probably full of cocaine and documents about how prehistoric women used to braid their pubic hairs.

Here's a three-player chess set. If you ask me, I think I'd want to try this the most! That is, if I had friends who played chess. 

Here's a firefighters vs. cops set. If you ask me, I say the guys with the guns are gonna beat the guys with hoses. Also, German Shepards are better than Dalmatians because I said so.

They're facing the wrong way, spray 'em!

Here's an old video game called Battle Chess. The cool thing about this game is that when a piece takes another piece, you get to see a little battle animation. Even the (virtual) pieces look nice!

(Insert Dragon Ball Z power-up sound effect and screaming here)

Make no mistake, since the queen is the most powerful piece, she's the only one who knows magic. She will end you. She will end your army. Hail to the queen. Long live the queen. This segment of Jack's Pile of Pages is in no way sponsored by the British Royal Family. They can't even get dental.

Star Wars has had many chess sets over the years (George Lucas is a marketing wizard), and even a chess video game not unlike Battle Chess, mentioned above. This version is for the Sega-CD, Sega's first venture into CD-based gaming. The one thing most people remember about the Sega-CD was the revolutionary FULL MOTION VIDEO included! When a piece takes another piece, this happens:

If you've ever wanted to see Boba Fett die about half a dozen different times, now is the time to eat some popcorn.

If you've ever wanted to see C3-PO die about half a dozen different times, now is the time to eat some popcorn.

 This is the chess set that didn't exist when I was a child, and now does exist, and now I want it now.

Yeah, this is probably the best one. It's got trees. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to make my own chess set out of flash drives and butter.