Chess Pieces - What do they look like? What chess set should I buy?

[Annjett3589]

Wish he had close captioning !!! Good video though!!

[plaaitaekaat]

I think you can call a knight a horse and a rook a castle. They're supposed to be their nicknames, aren't they? Isn't it true that the chess piece for the knight looks like a horse head and for the rook a castle post? Giving these pieces nicknames according to their shapes shouldn't matter much. I can call a bishop a fool according to its french name, can't I? I will also call a rook a tower, a knight a jumper, a bishop a runner, and a pawn a farmer- if I want to make fun of their German names

[plinqth]

steve....where can i get this exact board displayed in your opening shots? thx in advance--

bruce

[leafsfan9917]

I was just about to scream at you for calling rooks castles, you saved yourself just in time

[stevechessstrategies]

@leafsfan9917 Fun with a purpose! :-)

[stevechessstrategies]

@leafsfan9917 Besides ... if a billionaire author can call them "castles," why can't I? ;-)

[leafsfan9917]

@stevechessstrategies which billionaire author? and the awnser to your question is no because your not a billionare :P

[stevechessstrategies]

@leafsfan9917 J.K. Rowling, in the first Harry Potter book. Ron Weasley, who was the chess "expert," referred to a Rook as a Castle.

[leafsfan9917]

@stevechessstrategies oh, I have read it, you could potentially be reffering to the americanized version of it, is the title the philosiphers stone or the sorcerers stone?

[stevechessstrategies]

@leafsfan9917 Sorcerer's Stone. Does the British version of "rook" instead of "castle"?

[leafsfan9917]

@stevechessstrategies I beleive so.... I am not british Im canadian and I got the original version when I was a little kid, I remeber my mom bought me the sorcerers stone thinking it was different later on...