This is a highly-detailed, sculpted chess set with painted pieces complimented by a top-quality wooden board branded with the Jack Daniel’s logo. Here’s your chance to commemorate your love of deep thinking, the American Civil War, and smooth Tennessee sippin’ with this beauty of a chess set.

Board size: 15-1/2 x 15-1/2 x 2-1/4 Inches

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Made with chess pieces featuring the Big 5 most dangerous wild African animals of Africa, with baboons as pawns, rhinos as knights and white and black buffalo as bishops. Every chess piece is individually handcrafted, cast in marble resins and then hand painted with care and attention to authentic detail. Chessboards are designed and crafted in beautifully polished indigenous South African woods.

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Some artists include Snoop Dogg, Young Jeezy, Missy Elliot, Plies and Ludacris!

The figurines in the Hip Hop Chess set are hand made, and takes about 18 hours to make each piece. A complete chess set of 32 hand made figurines will set you back $5000, or you could order each piece at $300!

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Simply a thing of beauty!

The pieces and chess board are constructed with .035″ stainless steel and bronze wiring, one of the smallest wiring types in the world! Unfortunately, you can’t just run out and pick one of these up in a store. But if you have some patience and the build info supplied by the craftsman behind the board, you might be able to put on of these together in about a year’s time.

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Put on your “Blue Suede Shoes” and play with the legend himself, Elvis Presley! This chess set commemorates the King with pieces represented by themes such as “Blue Suede Shoes” and “Hound Dog.” With this set, Elvis truly is the King!

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The 32 piece set puts Mario up against Bowser - who will win?

Mario – the King, and Luigi – his queen (?) takes on Bowser and his team. Luigi being Mario’s queen has caused a stir on the net, although we still love him . The pieces are hand-painted, with the tallest piece standing at 2.5″ tall.

The catch? There are no magic mushrooms to help you

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The pieces are superbly crafted in this beautiful set!

The Pewter Egyptian Chess Set is a wonderful masterpiece that brings the past back to our boards.  Can you lead the Pharaoh and his men to victory in this epic battle?

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Will nuts, bolts and washers lead you to victory?

A wonderful home-made chess set, consisting of nuts, bolts and washers. And a chess board of course! Have you made your own chess set? Show us! Email your pictures of your set to support@chesscube.com, and it could end up on the blog

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The set was made in 2006 by Stuart McFarlane using anodized aluminum.

This wonderful Chess set is a complete set consisting of thirty two playing pieces and complementary playing table with a draw to securely house the pieces when not in use. Produced in anodized aluminum, the pieces are light, robust, and portable. For storage, the set can be aligned flat or upright in most bookshelves. All pieces and the table are padded with neoprene feet to prevent unwanted scratching.

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Who will come out tops? Gates or Jobs?

This Adam Frederick design brings the long-fought battling between between these technology giants to the Chessboard. The pieces that are used are the Zune, Xbox, notebooks and desktops, all geared up for a thrashing competition.

Which side are you cheering for?

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