10 x 10 Jester Chess
Above - Black & White lacquer pieces on Mahogany/Maple board
Below left: Black & Natural pieces. Below right: Teak box.
Click on the picture to enlarge.
Jester
Chess is a fascinating version of Chess that enhances and increases the
level of complexity of the standard game of Chess in a novel fashion.
Being played on a 100 square chequerboard, it is intrinsically a more
complex game. But the additional Jester pieces also contribute massively
to the interest:- The default version of the game is played exactly like
normal chess with the addition of the Jester that moves like a Queen for
its first move only and thereafter moves 1 or 2 squares along rows or
columns but not diagonally.
Those
looking to really blow their mind might like to try another version of
the game wherein the Jester moves the same way as the most recent piece
played. So, if you move your Knight, your opponent will be able to move
a Jester like a Knight for his next move!
Jester 10 x 10 Chess Sets
In
addition to being a great new version of Chess, the games that we have
made available are a high quality piece of workmanship. The grand pieces
are double-weighted with excellent Staunton detailing and a nice feel.
They are made from boxwood in 4 different styles:
- Black/Natural - lacquer finish
- Black/White - lacquer finish
- Red/White - lacquer finish
- Black/Natural - burnt finish
Our burnt wood pieces have black leather undersides; the other 3 sets have green felt undersides. You have a choice of 3 high quality boxes to store your pieces - Teak, Black Leather or Wooden with a Black Satinwood finish.
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Top - White lacquer piecesAbove left - Red & White lacquer pieces on Leather boxAbove right - Burnt wood pieces on Satinwood box.Left - Burnt wood pieces on Mahogany/Maple board.Click on the picture to enlarge.King is 95mm (3 & 3/4 inch) high. |
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Jester Chess set and board - Burnt wood in Teak Box (3.75 inch King) |
£127.57 | £149.90 | 4 + transit time | ||
Jester Chess set and board - Black/Natural (3.75 inch King) |
£127.57 | £149.90 | 4 + transit time | ||
Jester Chess set and board - Black/White (3.75 inch King) |
£127.57 | £149.90 | 4 + transit time | ||
Jester Chess set and board - Red/White (3.75 inch King) |
£127.57 | £149.90 | 4 + transit time | ||
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10 x 10 Chequerboards
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Designed for use with our Jester
Chess sets are these enormous, high quality 10 x 10 chequerboards.
The boards are inlaid with Maple and are very large - more than 2 feet
square. There are 3 types:
Boards are 65cm (25.5 inches) across with 5cm (2 inch) squares. |
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10 x 10 Chequerboard (Mahogany/Maple, 2 feet square) |
£42.47 | £49.90 | 4 + transit time | ||
10 x 10 Chequerboard (Walnut/Maple, 2 feet square) |
£42.47 | £49.90 | 4 + transit time | ||
10 x 10 Chequerboard (Wenge/Maple, 2 feet square) |
£42.47 | £49.90 | 4 + transit time | ||
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The Origin of Chess
A great deal has been written about the origins of chess and there is still a lot of debate on the subject. The earliest clear ancestor of chess is shaturanga or chaturanga which was invented by a 6th century Indian philosopher. It was a battle between four armies each under the control of a Rajah (king), two players being loosely allied against the other two and and each containing 4 corps - Infantry, Cavalry, Elephants and Boatmen. The board of 64 squares used for shaturanga, was borrowed from an earlier game called ashtapada, which was a race game played in ancient India.
Under Hindu law, gambling became forbidden early on in the Hindu civilisation and, to avoid the gambling laws, shaturanga players dispensed with the dice. Another early modification was the merging of the allied armies into a single army making the game a two player form and duplicating the pieces, both developments which have survived until today. Other changes also occurred; and the resulting game was called shatranj.
There are three versions of the story of arrival of shatranj in Europe - did it come from the Saracens via Spain, from the Byzantine empire as a present to Charlemagne or was it brought back from the Middle East by Knights returning from the Crusades?. Nonetheless, in Europe, the game developed into modern European chess now played worldwide while in China, Japan, Burma, Thailand and Korea, other variants became just as popular.
You can learn more about the History of Chess from The Online Guide to Traditional Games.