My chess sets: the worst designed one

This is an occasional series of postings inspired by a brief discussion on the flight home from Turkey this summer. The flight attendant saw I was reading a chess book (quelle surprise) and, just making polite small talk, said she also liked playing chess, saying that depending on whether other crew members played, she would play on stopovers. Later in the flight she asked me if I had a chess set at home…and that set me thinking. How many chess sets do I have? And since then number is, well, shall we say, quite high, I thought I would blog about them especially those which ‘mean something to me’.

A horrible magnetic set. The strength of the magnets are too strong, meaning the pieces stick to the board, but what is more, the board is shiny metallic, and in most lights the white and black squares are hard to distinguish.

Rating

0/10: Where it not forbidden to throw out chess sets (clutter? what clutter?) this would have been thrown out years ago.