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We hope you like your expierence with our site, happy shopping!
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We have grouped the wooden chess sets, decorative chess sets, magnetic chess sets and backgammon sets into several different pages for ease of viewing.
There are also pages for chess clocks, wooden chess pieces and wooden chess boards.
The decorative chess are hand made. The wooden chess boards are available in a range of sizes - as are the Tournament Chess Sets and the Staunton Pieces
Our range of hand made wooden chess cater for every budget, from starter sets to the competition set and from the pocket size to the very large decorative sets.
Details of the chess boards are shown on the category pages.
For more information on any of the sets then please contact us
email: cm1@chessmazeinternational.com
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ChessMaze International has just made their largest order ever of wooden chess sets from India! 5000 hand carved sets of all different designs and sizes!!
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Our beautiful collection of hand carved staunton chess sets make excellent choices for gift ideas such as Fathers Day gifts, Christening gifts, Christmas and Birthday gifts. We are also stockists of the World renown English Chess Company range of collectible sets and chess boards. When it comes to providing the customer with just the right set, we are the experts
Genuine Limited Edition Chess pieces are created and supplied only by genuine manufacturers- visit the website for more details -The English Chess Company a name you can trust with 25 years of experience
you can be sure your Limited Edition chess set is authentic! Our beautiful collection of hand carved staunton sets make excellent choices for gift ideas such as Fathers Day gifts, Christening gifts, Christmas and Birthday gifts. We are also stockists of the World renown English Chess Company range of collectible sets and boards. When it comes to providing the customer with just the right set, we are the experts. Buy chess sets at the UK number one supplier of quality unique chess sets and boards.
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CHESSMAZE INTERNATIONAL SUPPLIES CHESS SET TO SKY SPORTS!
We recently supplied SKY SPORTS with a Chess set & Board for a film shoot of the Barcelona v AC Milan Champions League Match!!! Sky Sports BSB contacted us with an idea of using our Professional series chess set, explaining their school of thought being the deep red and natural boxwood colours of the chess pieces over the Jet black Ebony Chessboard set out a comparative of colours as used by both football teams. Not only this, but also the analogous nature of chess metaphor of war was salient to their plans. Of course we were only to happy to be involved in such a high profile event.
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NEW FOR 2010- THE FIERCE KNIGHT PLASTIC TOURNAMENT CHESS SET
Chessmaze International is thrilled to be adding a brand new fresh design tournament chess set to our vast range of plastic chess sets. Mid April sees the arrival of the Fierce Knight plastic set, in colours swatch of Black and Tan this new design is sure to be a must for the chess enthusiast, club player or budding Grandmaster. The design of this excellent tournament chess set has set new standards in plastic designs and will add a touch of flair to your chess game. The refinements to this design concentrate on the curvature of the shafts and the redesigning of the major chess pieces, specifically the knights. The knights in this new design chess set are much more detailed in respect of the mane and facial structure. The styling of these chess pieces adds a new dimension to the basic plastic chess pieces, and we are certain that chess enthusiasts out there will appreciate the nuances this set has to offer. Be sure to check back with us in April when we will have these much awaited sets available. Buy chess sets, at the UK number one supplier of quality sets and boards.
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CHESSMAZE INTERNATIONAL EXCLUSIVE SUPPLIER TO FACEBOOK CHESS CLUB
We are thrilled to be the exclusive supplier of the face book chess club. With over 12,000 active members the face book chess club has to be one of the largest current chess communities. Each month Chessmaze International offers prizes to members who win the free to enter competitions. Why not join our ever growing chess community and enjoy the whole experience that the Face Book Chess Club has to offer.Chess Club Live is the most active chess page on facebook. It is the home for Chess people on Facebook!! Chess Club Live at www.chessclublive.com is our main page where you can play chess and discuss with fellow facebook chess people.
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MARBLE CHESS SETS
White & Mulit-Green Onyx Chess Set & Chessboard. These beautiful hand milled chess sets are a credit to the artisans of Pakistan. For the past 6 years Chessmaze has been offering these marble sets in various colour configurations. These particular marble chess pieces are also supplied with matching marble chessboards. The finishing touch is that the chess pieces and board are housed in a velveteen twin tiered box. Marble chess sets are favoured as gifts for many occasions. We hear lots of stories from people who have been on holiday to Greece, Italy and Spain; who have seen these beautiful marble sets and fallen in love with them. Problem being of course the weight of these sets would prohibit any ideas of perhaps buying a set and bringing them home. Anyhow the good news is Chessmaze International carry good stocks of these much sought after chess sets and boards. Our buying power means that we can offer these sets at a fraction of the price to that of our competitors. So get yourself a bargain chess set that would make a beautiful centre piece in your study or dining room.
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Promote your Page too Follow us on facebook for up to date news, events and general chess talk. The latest news is that we supplied Sky Sports with a chess sets for their televised promo of the Real Madrid versus Barcelona game! Skys bsb designers thought it was a great idea to use one of our high gloss traditional red and ivory chess sets as a prop for this giants football match, we were only to happy to supply them!
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4 Million for Chess, but With a Catch
As the election for the top positions in the World Chess Federation nears, both of the campaigns have promised money to finance chess programs and tournaments around the world.
Kirsan Ilyzumzhinov, the incumbent president, was the first to make pledges. Last month, he said that he would commit $1 million over the next 10 years to finance a series of 10 tournaments in Asia to honor Florencio Campomanes, his predecessor as president. Campomanes, who was from the Philippines, died in May at the age of 83.
Ten days later, Ilyumzhinov offered another pledge, this time for $500,000, to finance two tournaments in the Caribbean and in Latin America.
Now Anatoly Karpov, the former world champion who is running against Ilyumzhinov, says he has lined up $4 million from sponsors to support chess.
The first $100,000 was announced several days ago and is “to promote chess in Central America,” but exactly what that means, or how it is to be done, is not described. An additional $300,000 is for the Balkans over the next four years ($75,000 a year). Again, there are no specifics.
Saturday, a statement sent to Chessbase.com, a chess news Web site, said that the Karpov campaign had now lined up a total of $4 million from “commercial interests.” The statement does not give any details about who the backers might be or how the money might be distributed, other than that it would be done over the four years of Karpov’s term as president. It also says that the money would be in addition to financing the world championship or similar high-profile events.
The statement from Karpov concludes, “It is time to get back to the era when major corporations bid competitively to invest in chess and to break this dependency on unreliable sources. It is time to stop begging for money and to put chess back on the map, bigger and better than ever.”
As of Sunday morning, the statement does not appear on Karpov’s campaign Web site and was evidently sent to no other Web sites or organizations More...
Chessmaze International an Independent Review
Websites that you purchase things off are not usually in your top ten most visited websites unless they manage to offer a huge variety of products or very popular ones. Chess sets however are a specialty item as hardly any family owns them and the ones that do most likely keep them in the loft. With Chess Maze I want to buy every chess set they have on offer, this is because they advertise their sets, boards and clocks very well. Offering an in-depth analysis of each set, how it was made, what it is made of and often with plenty of pictures to show each particular style of a set. The sheer variety of sets they offer is also very impressive, they offer approximately about 100 chess sets which is amazing and many customers will be spoilt for choice. More...
Chess school for children and youth opens in Armavir
Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan, who is the Acting President of the Armenian Chess Federation, within the framework of his visit to Armavir participated Tuesday in the opening ceremony of the renovated chess school for children and young adults. More...
World’s smallest chess set and single hair barber win big in micro object contest
Anyone who subscribes to the view that good things come in small packages would no doubt be impressed by the winners of this year’s design contest held at Sandia Labs for novel and educational microelectromechanical systems (MEMs). The big, or should I say exceedingly small, winners were the world’s smallest chessboard, which is about the diameter of four human hairs, and a pea-sized microbarbershop that is intended to service a single hair. More...
Chess Pieces
The variation of designs available is broad, from small cosmetic changes to highly abstract representations to themed designs such as those that emulate the drawings from the works of Lewis Carroll or modern treatments such as Star Trek or The Simpsons. Themed designs are usually intended for display rather than for actual play (Hooper & Whyld 1992:76). Some works of art are designs of chess sets, such as the modernist chess set by chess enthusiast and dadaist Man Ray, which is on display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.[1]
Chess pieces used for play are usually figurines that are taller than they are wide. For example, a set of pieces designed for a chessboard with 2¼ inch (57 mm) squares typically have a king around 3¾ inches (95 mm) tall. They are available in a variety of designs, with the most well-known Staunton design, which is named after Howard Staunton (a 19th century English chess player), and was designed by Nathaniel Cook. The first Staunton style sets were made in 1849 by Jaques of London (also known as John Jaques of London and Jaques and Son of London) (Just & Burg 2003:225).
Wooden chess pieces are normally made of the light wood boxwood or sometimes maple. Black wooden pieces are either made of a dark wood such as rosewood, ebony, red sandalwood, or walnut; or they are made of boxwood and stained or painted black, brown, or red. Plastic white pieces are made of white or off-white plastic and black pieces are made of black or red plastic. Sometimes other materials are used, such as bone, ivory, or a composite material (Just & Burg 2003:224,226). More...
Why Buy Chess Sets and Supplies from ChessMaze International?
Guaranteed Low Prices
Our everyday guaranteed low prices as well as our quantity discounts, volume discounts, member discounts, and weekly promotions simply can't be beat. If we don't already have the lowest price for your chess sets on the internet, we'll match any competitor's prices..... More...
Chess Sets-Value and Styles
Regardless of whether you need a chess set for professional playing or you simply want it for your own pleasure, the choice can very demanding if you want to buy a quality product. There are several coordinates on which to judge whether chess sets are worth the price: quality, material, theme and size. Regular chess sets are pre-selected, meaning that the pieces and the chessboard are already coupled together in the set when you go to purchase it. Or there is another possibility here: that you get to pick the pieces individually and the matching chessboard in order to create personalized chess sets. More...
Loughborough MP Announces Free Chess Sets for Schools
Andy Reed MP today announced the giving away of chess sets to schools. The chess sets are available for schools as part of a scheme to provide a quarter of a million chess sets into the school network. Negotiations with manufacturers and distributors means that ten sets and boards can be presented to every school in England. More...
Chess Boxing....... Really?
There is a sport -- chess boxing -- that sounded just so deli-ciously dumb I almost didn't want to know what it really was. I just liked saying it, "Chess boxing."
Questions poured forth:
1. Was it two guys sitting at a card table in the middle of a boxing ring playing chess? And maybe one of them goes, "Check." And the other guy looks at the board, scratches his chin, and then just cold- cocks the guy with a roundhouse right, sending him backwards -- bishops and queens and mouthpiece flying -- and adding, "You sure?" More...
The Face book Chess Team
Meet the Chess Developers
Fri at 23:49
Here are some of the developers behind the most successful chess applications on Facebook.
These are individual developers who have despite the odds developed some of our favourite chess applications to rival those developed by big software companies. More...
English Chess Master Howard Staunton born 1810
Howard Staunton was born in April, 1810 in Westmoreland, England. He may have been the illegitimate son of the Frederick Howard, fifth Earl of Carlisle. It appears that Howard Staunton was not his real name. He started out as an actor in Shakespeare's plays.
In 1836 Staunton came to London and was a subscriber to William Walker's collection of chess games og Alexander McDonnell. He learned chess at the Divan More...
Fischer’s remains to be exhumed
Fischer’s remains to be exhumed
March 31, 2010, 4:29pm
In a bizarre twist to the battle for the estate left by the late chess legend Bobby Fischer, lawyer Sammy Estimo disclosed that the remains of the chess icon will have to be exhumed soon More...
The History Of Chess
Somewhere between the eighth and tenth century, an army of Arabs known as Moors invaded Persia. The army learned how to play chess from the Persians and when later they invaded the country of Spain, the soldiers brought the game of chess with them and soon the Spanish too started to play chess. The Persian name for chess, shatranj was changed by the Spanish to ajedrez. From Spain, the game chess quickly spread throughout all of Europe.
In the Middle Age, chess was a part of noble culture, representing different groups of warriors, and enemy forces, chess was used to teach war strategies and was called the "King‘s Game" More...
Chess game
Chess is a recreational game which is played all over the world. It is a mind game played between two players. The current game of chess has emerged from 15th century. Today the game of chess is the most famous game in the whole world and is played at homes, clubs, online and in various tournaments. More...
How to buy chess online ?
Chess is a game of mind and psychological skills. It is a two player game.
Chess is one of the oldest and favoured board game in the whole world and is played by kids to the elders. One can shop for chess sets at many places as it is widely available because of its demand. A person can now also buy chess sets on the Internet. The game consists of a chess board which is mostly made of wood or plastic these days and thirty two pieces with distinctive moves. More...
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