Glass Chess Sets...Please Stop Making Them

Nobody wants them. You can't play on them and they don't even look good. That's why everyone is trying to get rid of them. I went on craistlist looking for a chess set. Glass, glass and more glass! It's like fruitcake. If a department store has a chess set on sale, it's likely a  glass one. Please stop!

Seconded.  If it halts the 'glass chess set owned by hot girl in modern-minimalist-looking apartment' commercials industry, all the better for it.

I can't live without "glass chess"; glasses of Single Malt 

Surely the issue that we're not making enough "hot girls in modern-minimalist-looking apartments"?  Don't blame the glass chess sets.  Though I would prefer having wood...

I would stick to my Mammoth Ivory 10K $ chess set, thank you. Or, realistically, to my aboslutelly normal (and heavily used) wooden one.

I do own a glass chess set.

I usually play with my normal wooden one, but the glass one does get some use when I feel like it. I enjoy playing the different set for a change sometimes.

Thirded

 Quote of the day. 

My biggest problem with them is the lack of contrast.  If the board squares had nice, opaque paint, and one of the pieces had a decent tint, they'd be playable.  But gloss/matte just isn't enough of a difference to stand out.

I received a one as a gift years ago and it has only been out of the box a couple of times it's horrible. The sound of glass on glass always makes me cringe! I prefer my plastic set which is amazingly simple but totally effective when it comes to analysing positions.

i think they are mainly for display, or gentle play, them not "looking good" is a matter of individual taste..the market sets the price, those who don't like them simply won't buy them and vice versa, case closed....just thinking outloud.

The glass set of Luzhin's youth from The Luzhin Defense was pretty nice though.

I know, I've been thoroughly vanquished.

As long as we're on the topic, they can keep all of the civil war chess sets, Simpsons, Renaissance, Harry Potter, etc.  And all of the 3D chess, 3- and 4-player chess, chess with new pieces, bigger boards, etc.  Chess isn't tic-tac-toe.  It doesn't need to be "fixed" or "improved".  It's just fine the way it is.

Quite, though I would say a lot of stylised sets are quite beautiful - I myself play with a fine set with an abstract motif, and my main board is emerald green.  Themed sets are pretty annoying, in the way video games based on movies always used to be (I hear they're getting better nowadays).

Keep it simple - the art is in the game.

A well made wooden set is the way to go. I also have a glass set someone bought as a present. I just feel guilty about binning it.

My glass set is my favorite one.

I HATE GLASS CHESS SETS TOO!!!!

I have  nice table and wood staunton set at home, but the set I use 95% of the time is my tourney set(roll up board w/ plastic pieces). Cheap, easy, portable, not fragile and not distracting. If people really dig cartoon sets or fantasy sets or artsy sets, that's fine. I don't want to play chess on them, personally.(I like to know what piece is what when I play and some of the novelty sets are so weird that I cannot tell pieces apart.) 

I think most hard-core chess players agree that the tourney set is the new standard and that to play with anything else is distracting at best. That's just my own opinion on the matter.

This is why I hate some of the styles on this site (fortunatelly, they are used rare enough). If I need to do an effort to recognize a rook from a bishop, the sets sucks. See these sets for example (the first one is mildly annoying due to the bishop shape, the second is just terrible - the only easily recognizable piece is the knight, the third one has a major issue - the black bishops is hardly any different than the black pawn):

I hate glass chess sets. It's confusing since both colours look the same.