I rarely come across a Batman collectible I wouldn’t be happy to own, but then someone goes and makes things like this Batman Chess Set in pewter from Noble Collection (and for the low, low price of $795!!)
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Z-Man Games has a nice looking Arimaa set. As the Z-Man website summarizes the game, Arimaa is a game where stronger animals like elephants and camels try to push and pull the weaker ones from the opposing team into traps while one of the rabbits tries to sneak across the board and harmlessly reach the…
So I’m probably one of four people in the world who cared, but last Fall promotional material started appearing for an XBox 360 game produced by SouthPeak Games called “Battle vs. Chess.” In fact, Official XBox Magazine actually published a review of the game in their Holiday 2010 issue, saying, The game’s core chess experience…
Chess boxing is just what it sounds like — a melding of boxing and chess that started as a fictional sport in comic books and film until fans decided to make the sport a reality and actually hold chess boxing bouts. According to the Wikipedia entry on chess boxing, A match consists of up to…
ChessHeads is an attempt to cross chess with a collectible card game. There are 121 different cards that are randomly inserted into packs, although a complete set of all 121 cards can also be purchased for $99 at the time of this writing. ChessHeads first came out around 2004-2005, and unfortunately there just aren’t many…
MegaChess.com sells pretty much just one thing — large chess sets … as in chess sets where the pieces are up to 6 feet tall. Some of those sets can, not surprisingly, get pretty expensive. On the other hand, depending on the material you’re willing to settle for, you can also get some large chess…