Giant Chess Pieces

I was on a cruise ship last week, and I played some games with giant chess pieces. The king was about 3 feet tall. I was a bit disoriented at first, but it was a lot of fun once I adjusted. I'd be interested to hear the experiences of other people who've played with giant pieces.

So would I...

I was on a band trip in high school and I don't remember what city we were in, but we stopped at a mall for 4 hours.

The king was about 4 feet tall and I played my best friend for a solid 2 hours. By the end we had attacted quite a crowd to come and watch us, and it never got old lugging HUGE pieces around.

If you were white, I think you had the better game. Did you strike the match shortly after the picture was taken?

I have played with giant chess sets and it is a little disorienting at first, but I enjoyed it.  It was in a mall in Frankford, KY. It was a wooden set.

I saw a large set on a cruise ship, too, but I could not find anyone to play chess with me on it. One man told me it thought it was for kids, so we played with the set in the library. 

I enjoy playing with all types and sized of sets.  I think it is stimulating to the mind. But not for serious chess, however. 

I saved this photo.  I have a chess set collection and I would love to have such a small set. One would need tweezers to move the chessmen. 

I can't light it, I use that match as my sofa

Strangely disorienting. I found that odd, but it didn't last long.

lol!

That would be hard to keep track of, you could easily lose it

Oh, what you are saying is the match is a giant, right?  I've seen super large things such as that. 

No. I was making a joke about how small my apartment is, crosspinner

Okay. But you have go to admit that would be tricky to have a giant match and photograph it beside a regular chess set.  

I hope you some day have a larger apartment, that is, if you want one. 

Here is a game being played on 10 foot pieces - if anyone is interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WPuYDjzW7M&feature=player_embedded

Do the rules of chess change at the Quantum level???  Wow, I've  really taken this question to another level...just thinking outloud here   t/y.

That video was pretty cool. The people looked like ants. Do you know what country that was?

This set is really neat.  I wonder why they didn't put swivel wheels on those chessmen?

This is just one reason I read these forums.  Otherwise I may have never seen this set and many other sets I've seen on these threads. 

Don't know if you've ever seen this one before, but a really cool old Russian set with womens player Skripchenko

Giant chess is the only chess I can beat little kids at