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June 23, 2009, 04:50:18 PM Last Edit: June 23, 2009, 05:12:06 PM by RCMerchant
Loooong ago, on the BMMB (Stomp Tokyo) there was a thread about customized chess sets. You know,like the Star Wars and Civil War chess sets? If you could design yer own chess set-what would it be?

Mine-LUGOSI vs KARLOFF!

Insted of Black and White-mine would be red and green!
RED-Lugosi!

King-Dracula
Queen-Luna (Caroll Borland from MARK OF THE VAMPIRE)
Bishop-M.Legendre from WHITE ZOMBIE
Knight-Ygor!
Rook-Prof.Erik Vornoff from BRIDE OF THE MONSTER
Pawns-Dwight Frye as Reinfield!

GREEN-Karloff!
King-the Frankenstein Monster
Queen-Elsa Lanchester as the Bride,of course!
Bishop-Im-Ho-Tep:the Mummy
Knight-Fu Manchu!
Rook-Bateman-the butler in the OLD DARK HOUSE
Pawns-Dwight Frye as Fritz!
...oh yeah...as long as this is fantasy...the green pieces would be made of jade,and the red -rubys!
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Jack

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June 24, 2009, 06:51:37 AM
I've always wanted one of those fancy marble chess sets, with the big marble board and real artistic looking pieces, also in marble and maybe the black pieces in onyx.  Don't really have anyplace to put it though, and I hardly ever play chess.
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#2
June 24, 2009, 07:15:37 AM
The battle of good vs. evil gold and black set :twirl:

Gold

King - Ash!
Queen - Alice Johnson
Knights - Reggie Bannister and Tommy Jarvis
Bishops - Father McGruder and the priest from From Dusk Till Dawn
Rooks - Arnold Shwarzenegger and Jack Burton

Black

King - Pinhead
Queen - Helena Markos
Knights - Freddy and Jason
Bishops - Rev. Kane and Rev. Powell
Rooks - Pumpkinhead and Rawhead Rex

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#3
June 24, 2009, 09:29:48 AM
Kaiju Chess – Toho vs. Daiei

Green - Toho
King – Godzilla
Queen – Mothra
Bishop – Ghidorah
Knight – Rodan
Rook –  Gigan
Pawns –  Steve Martin


Red- Daiei
King – Gamera
Queen – Jiger
Bishop – Gyaos
Knight – Guiron
Rook – Barugon
Pawns – 'Kenny'

Like RC, ruby and jade would be nice.

And using Frye as the pawns in both sets is a nice touch.  :thumbup:

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frank

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June 24, 2009, 09:35:37 AM Last Edit: June 24, 2009, 10:46:31 AM by frank
Quote from: Mr. Briggs Inc. on June 24, 2009, 07:15:37 AM
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Bishops - Father McGruder and the priest from From Dusk Till Dawn
...

Wasn't that Dead Alive?

Nice choice, though


Edit: Oops, my bad. Should read more carefully....



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#5
June 24, 2009, 10:16:04 AM
Doc Savage:

King - Doc Savage
Queen - Pat Savage (okay, so Doc and Pat were cousins, but this is just a chess set)
Bishop - Ham
Knight - Renny
Rook - Monk
Pawns - 4 Long Tom pawns and 4 Johnny pawns

Since Doc Savage fought way more villains than you would need to make a chess set, the opposing set of pieces could be just a bunch of generic bosses, thugs, and henchmen, with a moll for the Queen.  Or maybe you could select which villains you wanted from various stories (e.g. John Sunlight, Tom Too, Sol Yuttal).
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#6
June 24, 2009, 12:21:54 PM
I'd like a Barsoomian set.   That'd look cool.
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#7
June 24, 2009, 12:48:26 PM
Judge Dredd:

King - Judge Dredd
Queen - Judge Hershey
Knight - Judge Anderson
Rook - Judge Sanchez
Bishop - Judge Giant
Pawns - Wally Squad Judges

The opposing pieces would be various villians. Judge Cal would be King.
                                             

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June 24, 2009, 02:07:14 PM Last Edit: June 24, 2009, 02:12:04 PM by Hammock Rider
80's action movies-Heroes vs Villains

For the Heroes:

King: Arnold Schawrzenegger
Queen: Sigourney Weaver
Knight: Chuck Norris
Bishop: Bruce Willis
Rook: Sylvester Stallone
Pawn: Rob Schneider ( I know Judge dredd is from '95 but come on, he fits perfectly.)

For the Villains

King: Hans Gruber
Queen: Alien Queen
Knight: Clubber Lang
Bishop: David Carradine
Rook: The Predator
Pawn:David Patrick Kelly (Solly from Commando)
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June 24, 2009, 03:32:20 PM
Quote from: Hammock Rider on June 24, 2009, 02:07:14 PM
80's action movies-Heroes vs Villains

For the Heroes:

King: Arnold Schawrzenegger
Queen: Sigourney Weaver
Knight: Chuck Norris
Bishop: Bruce Willis
Rook: Sylvester Stallone
Pawn: Rob Schneider ( I know Judge dredd is from '95 but come on, he fits perfectly.)

For the Villains

King: Hans Gruber
Queen: Alien Queen
Knight: Clubber Lang
Bishop: David Carradine
Rook: The Predator
Pawn:David Patrick Kelly (Solly from Commando)

I'd buy it!

Myself, I was working on carving my own set at one point, but the project fell apart.  I had trouble getting enough raw materials of the appropriate size, plus my tools were inadequate at the time.  Might go back to it, but the basic concept: I used purchased white cylinder wood to make the white side.  Clean, well-shaped wood.

The dark side I found random old wood sticks in the back yard and woods around my house.  They're discolored, malformed, and ugly, and of somewhat various sizes.  It looked pretty cool actually.

Wortcov

#10
June 25, 2009, 07:53:15 PM
Alien, (Xenomorph) set
colors: black and red( based on alien:genocide)

King: Rogue Alien(aliens: rogue)
queen:Queen Mother (aliens: female war)
knight: dog alien(alien 3)
Bishop: alien queen(well, from most movies/comics  :tongueout:)
Rook:Praetorian( alien:female war)
pawn:normal aliens (alien, and most of the other stuff)

ghouck

#11
June 29, 2009, 05:14:55 PM
I'd do mine based on food:

King Crab for the King
A T-Bone Steak for the Queen
A Chilidog for the Bishop
A Pizza for the Rook
A Taco for the Knight
And pints of Ben & Jerry's for the Pawns

Man I'm hungry. . .
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#12
June 30, 2009, 05:15:37 AM
Quote from: ghouck on June 29, 2009, 05:14:55 PM
I'd do mine based on food:

King Crab for the King
A T-Bone Steak for the Queen
A Chilidog for the Bishop
A Pizza for the Rook
A Taco for the Knight
And pints of Ben & Jerry's for the Pawns

Man I'm hungry. . .

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Mine would be based on the best kind of underpants people can wear:

The King and Queen: silk undies.
Everyone else: torn and shredded-what-is-peeking-out-there? kinds.

:smile:
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