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Harry Potter Chess in Germany [message #239538] Sa, 25 März 2006 10:40
viperx2  
We got a new collectors magazin with about 47 magazins once a week.

The original Chess figures and some other usefull stuff is included Like
a magic wand. All this figures and stuffs comes with a special effect.
e.i. you can move the Tower by your magic wand with a invisible magnetic
pin
The queen is glowing in the night and the pawn explodes into two parts
;) its a really kewl chess game
it coast about 6 US$ per magazin so that means 6 * 47 = 282 US$ for a
potter chess game o0

My question: what do you think about it and what about the high price
for it.

Anyway i got the first collection magazin include the magic wand and the
fist black tower to put it into my movie merchandise collection :)
Re: Harry Potter Chess in Germany [message #239557 ] Sa, 25 März 2006 14:21
mcdowella  
In article <MPG.1e8f2e567d05cf83989683 [at] news.arcor.de>, Daniel N.
<viperx2 [at] arcor.de> writes
>We got a new collectors magazin with about 47 magazins once a week.
>
>The original Chess figures and some other usefull stuff is included Like
>a magic wand. All this figures and stuffs comes with a special effect.
>e.i. you can move the Tower by your magic wand with a invisible magnetic
>pin
>The queen is glowing in the night and the pawn explodes into two parts
>;) its a really kewl chess game
>it coast about 6 US$ per magazin so that means 6 * 47 = 282 US$ for a
>potter chess game o0
>
>My question: what do you think about it and what about the high price
>for it.
>
>Anyway i got the first collection magazin include the magic wand and the
>fist black tower to put it into my movie merchandise collection :)
>

The rules of Wizard chess are the same as Muggle chess, but you don't
have access to proper magic (or you would be interfering with the
computer you posted with). So the closest you can get to Wizard chess is
actually to learn and play Muggle chess. Since you quoted USD I looked
around and found at http://www.thechessstore.com/category/02.1/ chess
sets starting at $30. Amazon.com tells me a good introductory book on
the game like Chess Fundamentals sells for from about $8.

Just before Xmas in the UK my interest in chess was sparked by the Harry
Potter series and I bought something billed as a tournament chess set
(wood, much like the ones in the URL) for £9.99 at a local toyshop plus
maybe £5 for a board. Throw in another £25 to buy a computer chess game
(such as Fritz) and you've spent about £50. I actually bought maybe
another £50 worth of books - which will keep me amused for a long time
judging at the rate I am going through them (I happen to like playing
through games, so e.g. I bought 'The World's Greatest Chess Games' for
£9.99), so I've spent something under half of what you propose. There's
no accounting for taste, but you might want to consider what else you
might do with half of $282.
--
A.G.McDowell
Re: Harry Potter Chess in Germany [message #239571 ] Sa, 25 März 2006 15:50
Flavius Marcus Septim  
"A.G.McDowell" <mcdowella [at] nospam.co.uk> wrote in
news:lZdOSWAoPUJEFwHj [at] mcdowella.demon.co.uk:

> Just before Xmas in the UK my interest in chess was sparked by the
> Harry Potter series and I bought something billed as a tournament
> chess set (wood, much like the ones in the URL) for £9.99 at a
> local toyshop plus maybe £5 for a board. Throw in another £25 to
> buy a computer chess game (such as Fritz) and you've spent about
> £50. I actually bought maybe another £50 worth of books - which
> will keep me amused for a long time judging at the rate I am going
> through them (I happen to like playing through games, so e.g. I
> bought 'The World's Greatest Chess Games' for £9.99), so I've
> spent something under half of what you propose. There's no
> accounting for taste, but you might want to consider what else you
> might do with half of $282.

Check the e-book binary groups if you get them. Lots chess books and
related ones been post there in the past two months. I've seen
strategy, learning, old games, etc.

If your ISP/NewsServer has a good retention rate you should be able
to get them. If not, since most of the people in those groups are
pretty nice, explain and ask for a re-post.

I got one of the plastic sets that looks like the ones from the first
movie for Xmas this year as a gift. Not that I play the game much any
more, I collect the sets themselves. Been doing so since I was a teen
in the mid sixties.

I have a number of wooden ones, plastic, metal (both cast and
assembled), onyx, marble, "so-called" ivory (legal), jade, and
ceramic. I even have a set fired from the special clay deposits that
came to the surface during Alaska's big earthquake back in '63, I
think.

Most, I expect, were made in the US, but some I have came from China,
Taiwan, Japan, Russia, Mexico, Hungry, and the UK. Most of them when
I was in the Navy (made several WestPac cruises). But the ones from
the UK were from a trip there when worked for an English company back
in the early eighties. Got to spend five week in the West Midlands
area, stayed in Cheltenham.

They range in size from the Alaskan set (a gift) with a 6" King to
the 3/4" high King of the Chinese jade set (very cheap lower quality
jade too). That and it's small size are the only reason I could
afford it back then. I even have one of the Star Trek (TOS) 3-D sets.
Some came with boards, some didn't.

I doubt that any of them are worth much, but I had fun with them over
the years. It's a great game, weather you play, collect, or kabitz, I
hope you enjoy it as long as I have.


Flavius Marcus Septimus Agustus
~~~~ CENTURION WALLS ~~~~
Re: Harry Potter Chess in Germany [message #239581 ] Sa, 25 März 2006 19:09
2000man  
i dont know who did it first but people have been trying to jazz up
chess for quite a while

i rememeber archon for the commodore 64 and battlechess archon didt
follow the rules of chess and battlechess was just for entertainment
watching the pieces fight

the problem with muggle chess pieces that break other pieces is that we
dont have magic to put them back together

i think it would be neat if the board autobatically ejected the taked
pieces like the old game perfection have 64 springloaded squares
Re: Harry Potter Chess in Germany [message #239596 ] Sa, 25 März 2006 20:35
Lady Grey  
A.G.McDowell wrote:
> In article <MPG.1e8f2e567d05cf83989683 [at] news.arcor.de>, Daniel N.
> <viperx2 [at] arcor.de> writes
> >We got a new collectors magazin with about 47 magazins once a week.
> >
> >The original Chess figures and some other usefull stuff is included Like
> >a magic wand. All this figures and stuffs comes with a special effect.
> >e.i. you can move the Tower by your magic wand with a invisible magnetic
> >pin
> >The queen is glowing in the night and the pawn explodes into two parts
> >;) its a really kewl chess game
> >it coast about 6 US$ per magazin so that means 6 * 47 = 282 US$ for a
> >potter chess game o0
> >
> >My question: what do you think about it and what about the high price
> >for it.
> >
> >Anyway i got the first collection magazin include the magic wand and the
> >fist black tower to put it into my movie merchandise collection :)
> >
>
> The rules of Wizard chess are the same as Muggle chess, but you don't
> have access to proper magic

yeah, you really would to get ahold of that amount of cash :)

--
Jane Grey
Re: Harry Potter Chess in Germany [message #239754 ] Mo, 27 März 2006 07:14
dicconf  
In article <1143310170.475902.95800 [at] u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>,
2000man [at] wongfaye.com <2000man [at] wongfaye.com> wrote:
>i dont know who did it first but people have been trying to jazz up
>chess for quite a while

Mostly they've jazzed it down. Historically there were many variations,
and I think I've seen a round chessboard and rules for it.

>i rememeber archon for the commodore 64 and battlechess archon didt
>follow the rules of chess and battlechess was just for entertainment
>watching the pieces fight
>
>the problem with muggle chess pieces that break other pieces is that we
>dont have magic to put them back together

Or have them designed like Pop-It[R] beads (boy that's an old reference)
or Lego[R] or stick back together with Velcro[R].

But for pieces that fight, get a game of Thud!

>i think it would be neat if the board autobatically ejected the taked
>pieces like the old game perfection have 64 springloaded squares

That would be tricky to control, but as long as nobody ejected a piece
before both players agreed it had been taken, it could be fun.

=Tamar
Re: Harry Potter Chess in Germany [message #239755 ] Mo, 27 März 2006 07:17
dicconf  
In article <MPG.1e8f2e567d05cf83989683 [at] news.arcor.de>,
Daniel N. <viperx2 [at] arcor.de> wrote:
>We got a new collectors magazin with about 47 magazins once a week.
>
>The original Chess figures and some other usefull stuff is included Like
>a magic wand. All this figures and stuffs comes with a special effect.
>e.i. you can move the Tower by your magic wand with a invisible magnetic
>pin
>The queen is glowing in the night and the pawn explodes into two parts
>;) its a really kewl chess game
>it coast about 6 US$ per magazin so that means 6 * 47 = 282 US$ for a
>potter chess game o0
>
>My question: what do you think about it and what about the high price
>for it.
>
>Anyway i got the first collection magazin include the magic wand and the
>first black tower to put it into my movie merchandise collection :)

Glow-in-the-dark pieces might be fun, but if they don't all glow, you
can't play in the dark, and if you play in the light, you won't see
the glow. The exploding pawn - how do they do that? A pushbutton
and a spring? To be fair, all the pieces should be able to "explode".

I think it would be an awfully expensive toy, especially since there's
no guarantee that the magazine will be in business long enough to produce
47 issues. Still, for the die-hard collector with more money than he
needs, it might be fun to have even a partial set, or just one or two
pieces.

=Tamar
Wizard chess [message #239895 ] Di, 28 März 2006 19:03
Blon Fel Fotch Passam  
A.G.McDowell wrote:

> The rules of Wizard chess are the same as Muggle chess

I'm not so sure that this is true. When Harry is first introduced to the
game (book 1 chapter 12) he tells us that it is exactly like Muggle chess
~except~ that the figures are alive, which makes it a lot like directing
troops in battle - ie, the 'fights' are no longer foregone conclusions.

We saw this distinction from the simple capture when (book 5 chapter 24)
one of Harry's castles (he doesn't say 'rooks') was engaged in a violent
tussle with a pawn of Ron's, and he was egging it on enthusiastically...

"Squash him -- SQUASH HIM, he's only a pawn, you idiot."

In the real game, when your castle lands on an opponent's pawn, that's
the end of that, castle takes pawn. If the outcomes in Wizard chess were
as inevitable as that, there'd be no point in exhorting one's pieces.


Blon Fel Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen

--
Free Margaret Blaine now!
Re: Wizard chess [message #239897 ] Di, 28 März 2006 19:16
drusilla  
Blon Fel Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen escribió:
> A.G.McDowell wrote:
>
>> The rules of Wizard chess are the same as Muggle chess
>
> I'm not so sure that this is true. When Harry is first introduced to the
> game (book 1 chapter 12) he tells us that it is exactly like Muggle chess
> ~except~ that the figures are alive, which makes it a lot like directing
> troops in battle - ie, the 'fights' are no longer foregone conclusions.
>
> We saw this distinction from the simple capture when (book 5 chapter 24)
> one of Harry's castles (he doesn't say 'rooks') was engaged in a violent
> tussle with a pawn of Ron's, and he was egging it on enthusiastically...
>
> "Squash him -- SQUASH HIM, he's only a pawn, you idiot."
>
> In the real game, when your castle lands on an opponent's pawn, that's
> the end of that, castle takes pawn. If the outcomes in Wizard chess were
> as inevitable as that, there'd be no point in exhorting one's pieces.
>
>
> Blon Fel Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen
>

Perhaps the pieces end up having some sort of personality after all
those years they play. Who know, maybe harry wanted to take the pawn but
the castle wanted to take something else and didn't move so, we
witnessed a interchange of ideas between the castle and Harry, but as
far as we know only Harry can talk.

Now, I want to play against Harry, but definitely not against Ron.
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