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Editorial Review:
Brand new in factory sealed box
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
This set is a joke!!!!! My wife bought me this set for Christmas when it first came out (for about $15). I thought it was a rip off at that price. The pieces are made of soft plastic and are way too large for the flimsy cardboard board that comes with the set. The Knight pieces barely stand up at all as they are top heavy and poorly balanced. Fortunately the pieces of this set are hollow and we were able to improve our set by using a hot glue gun to glue lead weights inside the base of each piece. Now the pieces are quite... more info
Cheap - save your money Paper-thin box, flimsy folding cardboard board, and poorly weighted pieces on a crowded board. Save your money and get something better... this set's only selling point is it's link to Harry Potter -- and it's a tenuous link at best.
Better than most... Looking at pictures, you'd think it was a flawless chess set: The pieces look great, but it's also very clear which is which (none of this "pitcher is the queen, first baseman is a rook" nonsense). However, the knights invade other squares, and make for a very cluttered feel, which is augmented by too-tall queen/king/bishops. The knights are also top-heavy, and prone to tip.
The box is made out of cardstock, my pieces quickly moved to a Rubbermaid to stay safe, and was kind of frustrating in it's PC,... more info
Good looking but not practical For the price (under thirty dollars at some sites), the quality and details of the (albeit plastic) pieces are quite satisfactory. My kid and his friends definitely love this, but more as a toy than a chess set. The problem is the size. The pieces are too big, especially for kids, and the board is too small. The pieces kept getting knocked over inadvertantly. If the board had been 50% larger, I would have given it another star.
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