Individual Giant Chess Pieces
Please note - the individual chess pieces work out to be very expensive due to the cost at the manufacturers of splitting a set. Our profit margin on them is tiny, despite the high price. We cannot guarantee that all pieces will be always be available - please email to find out before ordering.
Premier Giant Chess Pieces
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More detailed giant chess pieces, often marked on the base with Rolly. Shown in the picture. Click on the picture to enlarge. |
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Rolly Giant King |
$86.32 | 1 + transit time | ||
Rolly Giant Queen |
$86.32 | 1 + transit time | ||
Rolly Giant Bishop |
$69.62 | 1 + transit time | ||
Rolly Giant Knight |
$71.14 | 1 + transit time | ||
Rolly Giant Rook |
$69.62 | 1 + transit time | ||
Rolly Giant Pawn |
$65.07 | 1 + transit time | ||
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Garden Games Giant Chess Pieces
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Less detailed giant chess pieces, often unmarked on the base. Shown in the picture. Click on the picture to enlarge. |
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Garden Games Individual Giant Chess piece |
$69.62 | 1 + transit time | ||
| | For an immediate quote & to confirm that an item will arrive before Christmas |
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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.