Who sells the best plastic chess sets?

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Bronco

I'm looking to buy a quality set with a heavy weight , matte finish, little or no molding lines. Is it HOS, The chess store, some other site? I like the HOS sets because they a more traditional. The Chess Store has some pretty cool looking sets ,rooks and knights look nice and different, but a couple reviews said the weights rattled on a piece or two from there. Any other suggested sites? What do you guys suggest?

goldendog

My HOS 3.75' plastic Collector is great. Well-weighted and a design I like, but there are mold lines.

If they bother you you can always take them down yourself.

If you'd rather not do the work one can always opt for an inexpensive but still very nice wood set.

No chance of mold lines there!

One can get something like this, which would be excellent for most everything a plastic set would be good for:

I have a set like this and it weighs 2 lbs.

Also, try this thread

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/cheap-wood-vs-nice-plastic

couriermike

Do they still sell the plastic weighted Drueke pieces?  I used to have a set of those.  They were my favorite, kinda stubby and low to the ground.

goldendog

I saw some plastic lookalikes of the classic Dreuke.

http://www.chesshouse.com/3_3_4_Paladin_Chess_Set_Pieces_Black_Natural_p/e105p.htm

Moriarty_697

I'm partial to the Ultimate set from American Chess Equipment.  The yellow pieces take a bit to get used to but the set just plays so well. They feel great.

kaspariano
Moriarty_697 wrote:

I'm partial to the Ultimate set from American Chess Equipment.  The yellow pieces take a bit to get used to but the set just plays so well. They feel great.

 

             I got that yellow 2018 ultimate chess set ( x 2), and a lighter cream color one ultimate chess set ( no the white one), the cream color one I think is the one that was sold before this 2018 version.  Great sets to play with, specially blitz! 

quadibloc

I can't answer the question as posed. But I can say that in looking for a good plastic chess set, one that impressed me was the Collectors Series from Wholesale Chess. It closely resembled the original Staunton pieces. I wasn't really looking for that; all I wanted was a tournament-size weighted plastic chess set where the Knights didn't look like they were copied from poorly-carved wooden chess pieces.

After all, a plastic chess piece can be just about any shape you like, since that shape is carved once, and then just molded. And the cheapest plastic chess sets that were hollow and not weighted often did have Knights that were beautiful in shape.