This is great for chess instruction for a whole group. Everyone can see the board well. Also use it outdoors, “garden chess” in decent weather.

Very nice for what it is, though the pieces, 4-8″ tall, are a bit lighter than I would have hoped. As someone else noted, they are hollow and could have sand or something similar to fill them and weigh them down. It’s on the to-do list…

The photo for this chess set is very misleading. I thought it would really be large pieces to be able to move around with ease. However the pieces are small, 6″ to 8″. The material is hard plastic which is fine and would be durable.

My own children love playing with this set. In addition to playing chess, sometimes they recreate the Fritz and Chesster games they’ve played and printed from the computer, sometimes they make up puzzles for each other “Move one piece and put my king into check”, sometimes they haul the chess pieces around the house to do double duty for some other imaginative play venture.

I do wish there was some way to weight the pieces, they are hollow plastic with felt bottoms. I’ve debated opening them up to put sand inside of them, but haven’t done so yet. Anyway, I’m not sure how this game would hold up outside on a windy day, but regardless, we have been very pleased with this chess set.