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Amazon.com Search | |  | Sequence Games | Home » » » Drueke Travel Magnetic Chess Set | | | | | | | Description: | | The perfect way to take you chess game on the road! The Drueke travel chess set includes a tough plastic case and metal playing surface that make it basically indestructible. Not only are the pieces highly magnetic, but they are also short enough to fit under the lid while still saving the position. Give the box a shake or tuck it away in your pack, the pieces will hold their position. | | | Features: | |
• The Drueke Travel Magnetic Chess set is a quality travel chess set.
• Pieces include strong magnets to hold them in place during travel.
• Board Size: 1" tall, 8" square
• Weight: approx. 1 lb
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 8.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 8.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.8 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.05 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 37 reviews |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
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 Great Set Except The Pieces Look alikeFeb 25, 2010
I am quite satisfied with this product except for the fact that the bishops and the pawns are hard to tell apart. It's a good set for travel but not one that I would like to use all the time.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Good but mine has a flawNov 24, 2009
First, for me, the size and overall usefulness of this set are fine. Being able to put the lid on and leave the pieces firmly in their positions is nice. So in regards to overall usefulness/functionality, I haven't found anything out there that's better and would give it 5 stars on that alone. Unfortunately, in terms of overall quality for the price (I paid about $20 here on Amazon), I'd give it 1 star. After using it for about a week, the board looked like it was 10 years old. The dark squares were dotted with scratches down to the metal (I didn't notice how bad it was at first because the room I had been using it in did not have a lamp directly over the chair I was sitting in). I looked at the bottom of the pieces and realized what the problem was. A piece of plastic protrudes out the bottom of each piece where the magnets pop on. Basically, each of those pieces had a sharp point that stuck slightly past the magnet (whic is why the pieces did not sit perfectly straight). Those sharp points were scratching the paint every time they moved (even if you pick the pieces up and put them down without dragging them, they still scratch the center of the square. I ended up taking the magnets off of all the pieces, filing down the sharp points, and then putting the magnets back on. That seems to have slowed down the scratching process. Also, there was a small sliver of magnet that had fallen off of a base and onto the board. I tried to gently remove it, but even being careful, left a permanent mark on the dark square it was on. It needs some kind of clear coat to protect the paint. Bottom line is that quality is lacking.
0 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Great for the price and the use it will recieveOct 26, 2009
This Chess set was the perfect answer to a dillemma. My boyfriend is serving our country over in Iraq. We both play chess and we were both going to miss being able to play very much. Right before he left, he mailed me a package with a chess set he had picked out for me. And enclosed "the rules" these rules simple put it that each person could make a move over IM, Letter Or email and could only make one turn per contact. This sounded great to me, but he did not have a chess set. Since they move him around quite a bit a regular chess set would have been cumbersome and setting it up and taking it down would have been problematic as well.
I found this chess set on Amazon and although it has a couple of minor things that i would have liked to be better, it is an excellent overall product.
The Queen and King could be a tad easier to distinguish, but despite that, the magnets could hold the peices in place even shaking it around, the lid stayed on securely, and provided the perfect answer to our dillema.
Now My boyfriend can still play chess with me from the otherside of the planet, in a war zone. Having this little chess set is allowing me to somehow feel a little closer and to help him keep his spirits up. This little chess set is in an indirect way supporting our troops.
Thanks for such a space saving, Portable product!
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
drueke chess set reviewJun 05, 2009
it's a nice set. i love that you can save your game, unlike the other boards that fold in half. the magnets are fairly strong. it's somewhat hard to tell the pawns from the bishops. a tiny dab of white paint would fix that.
the lid doesn't really lock onto the base when you close it. so far this hasn't been a problem, but i feel that it should 'lock' on there somehow.
it's the best travel chess set i've had.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Convenient, portable Chess Set for people on the goMay 14, 2009
Overall, I like this chess set. It is a great value for the price, and fulfills it's purpose, to play chess on travel or on the go. For example, my son and I played chess at a theme park while waiting in line for rides, and my son uses it on the school bus.
Positives: Case is well-built, seems strong enough, my son threw the closed set to me 15 feet away, landing it on the pavement, and the case was not damaged. Pieces really stick to the board, and are short enough you can close the box, put it in your backback, get it out later, and your game is intact. It's big enough to see and move the pieces (I've had tiny sets). But it's small enough to fit in a backback and to hold easily with one hand while moving pieces with the other. Case is attractive.
Negatives: Case and pieces are plastic, and on the aforementioned throw, one of tiny tabs marking a rook broke off. All the pieces are the same size, and the bishops look too much like pawns -- but people have fixed that by putting a dot of paint on the Bishop heads, and we will do that soon.
Biggest negative: The paint is wearing off the black squares, and we've only had this a month or two. The problem is the magnets are strong, and if you slide your pieces, the friction is like sanding the board. You really need to pick up the pieces to move them, but then you have to be careful because if you go too close you can magnetically pull other pieces off the board. I don't know if this is peculiar to our board, because it seems a thin coat of clear finish would have solved this problem. We might contact the company to see if we can get a replacement, but it looks like it would be easy enough to repaint if we had to.
But the paint doesn't come off MUCH, so it's still easy to tell which square is which.
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