I own 6 chess sets. One of them is Xiangqi. I have them in my album.

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Sadly, more than 20.  I never met a chess set I didn't like.

You can find some evidence for this on my blog:  http://blog.chess.com/qixel/a-clean-well-lighted-place-for-chess

My chess collection, however, is not nearly so large as my shoe collection.

Amy

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I own 2 "physical" chess sets.  I also own several mental chess sets, and one spiritual chess set.

Just one, unfortunately. It's quite nice, but not very practical. Either way, I almost never get the chance to play on it, just once every few months when somebody comes to visit :p

I'd love to have one of those classic vinyll boards and plastic sets to put next to my computer, like I said my current one is not great for that.

Xiangqi and regular chess.

I have four - a nice wooden one, a plastic one, a Star Wars edition one, and a Disney edition one. I'm a geek. >_<

one now,

thansk for reminding me chess.com, I just got a newer wooden set a few days ago and tossed my plastic set in the trash just now so that I could click on the "One" option.

do you know where to get a magnetic chess set to put on the fridge?

da_tornado wrote:

do you know where to get a magnetic chess set to put on the fridge?

I liked this idea so much I made my own.  I just printed out a board from the Internet and used pieces from a cheap magnetic set I had lying around the house.

Here's a picture of it on my fridge (the position is from the famous "game of the century," Byrne vs Fischer 1956).

Amy

one and a half standard plastic tournament set.

i own 1 pocket chess board, 1 chess board with large pieces, a very expensive chico sized chess board, and one that came with a chess book.

I don't have any anymore, after one broke and the other got its pieces lost...

Why do some people have between 10 to 20. It's so pointless.

who really has 20 chess sets?!? People are just messing around.

Who owns just -one- chess set?

I could see not owning any
But not just one :P:P

I think I have a couple...

I have four regular chess seta (one of them very old), but I also have two very small for travels... After counting them as half set each, I have five, which puts me into two groups. So maybe I shouldn't count them and then I would belong only to 3-5 group. But maybe there are chess sets after all and I belong only to 5-10 group!

Aaaaah what should I do, isn't world falling down on me??? :-D

some of my boards are for playing, another 1 for my kid to learn, 1 is collection edition of Lord of the rings, and another one to teach people...  around 8 boards

Alas, I have none.  I've been looking around on tinternet for a good plastic set and appropriate board but cant seem to find one I like.  They're all either the bog standard tournament set which I think is a bit cheap looking and I'm sure I've played on different sets in clubs, or they're too big.  I've seen a few different sets in different clubs, some I like less (practically unplayably horrible), and some more than the standard set, but I cant begin to imagine where they got any of them from.  It seems they don't exist. 

20 sound unreasonable?  I'll have to take some pictures to post...

I own 4 chesssets

I own 2 wooden ones and 2 plastic ones, I don't really mind what I play on, once or twice I tried to make a board with my friends - fun, but not very useful in itself...

I own two now. I had a few cheap ones sitting around, but I finally trashed them.

Yesterday I went to the store and got some nice pieces for a board I've had for about two years.

Today my portable tournament chess set arrived, and I really love it. I've wanted chess sets like these two my entire life and now I have them, so the rest are going to Goodwill.

i have 2

I have none more than somepeople

I have two, one big wooden chess board made of nara wooden and all pieces that we bought in Baguio. And the other one is made of porcelain, small one.

More than 20

i think i have like.. 7

i have like three or four

I have one chess set, you only need one set to play chess. Dan.

I just bought a travel set which takes me upto 3

A dozen or so. All sizes, all prices, plastic and wood, old and new, but all Stauntons (except for one hand-made black onyx/rose quartz disc set).

I like to give away sets when I go much above a dozen.

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I've got a little light wood set, a little plastic one, a pair of magnetic really small -to carry allways with me-, a big one on Stone, marble, both pieces and board -a present from my father-, and 4 big competition style plastic Staunton chess sets and boards.

I have two wooden chess boards, one that came in a book, a pocket-sized chess board, one Harry Potter one that I got for my birthday, one chess board that has a computer inside it and tells you what it wants to move, and finally one acrylic chess board.  This puts me into the 5-10 group

it seems i am no longer welcome at this site; i will take my leave...good luck to all of you.

Have 5 sets. Could have 500

2. 1 glass and the other is like from the dollar store! LAMO!!!

2. 1 magnetic for travel and one fairly large one for home.

i have 4:

2 tournament sets

1 travel set

1 XiangQi set

cool

I just have one set because I just play chess for fun, friendship and brain exercise. My hobby and favorite to do is the ballroom dancing. I have many CD for ballroom dancing.

Ray Duque, III (GMBD), New York City

you gotta have chess sets

I have two one for home and one for tournaments

i have two a plastic cheappy one and a very nce one mideval so pieces really are king queen etc!then  am sure we have a few thrown in our game closet so i put 3-5

I have six sets, and no matter which set I use I still lose,but the computer ones I take the batteries out, that takes the smugness out of that electronic voice. 

i own a wooden one

a plastic one

two portable small ones

a chess set inside a cd case

and dungeons and dragons chess pieces

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i have like.....10

I like having 3 like I do.

I own 1.  It's a wooden fold up travel board with wood pieces.  The pieces go inside when it's folded up.  When I got the pieces they weren't painted, so I spray painted half gloss white and the other half metallic grey.  they actually look really cool.  Sometime ago my friends dog ate one of the black knights.  I just replaced it with a black lighter from his garbage can.  And it's been that way ever since. 

I own one, which my roommate bought me after he broke my previous one.

My name speaks for itself

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I have one - A antique wooden set.  And it worths a lot!

who would want 20 or more chess setts????????????? bizzare isn't one enogh??????!!!!!!

( well unless i get them for free lol )

Ooo the curve is approaching normalcy

I picked up a few specialty medieval chess sets when I went to Europe, have two wooden chess sets, and one travel plastic one.

2, both carved by my dad from broom handles 50 and 35 years ago. and a board made by a great-uncle with yellow and black formica squares

i have 11 chess set.to keep up with the player at chess.com.one for each player some time 2 or 3 set just for one player

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6, just 6

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I Have 5 chess sets.......3 of which are computers......I started 63 years ago when I was 10 years old with a Staunton 2.5" King set and folding board.............When the first computers appeared I bought one of the earliest "Fidelity" models it was very limited and eventually I gave it to my eldest son who was a chess beginner.......as computers began to improve I bought a "Kasparov Advanced Turbo Trainer" and sometime later a "Mephisto advanced travel computer"......by this time my sons had become quite strong players and I purchsed a 4" King Staunton set,full size tournament board and a Garde chess clock....we had many a great evenings chess sessions but as always family move away and I didn't have anyone to play against.....Recently I have purchased an "Excalibur Grandmaster".......hopefully my last chess computer....I now seem to lose most of my computer games but I still play nearly every day....I think I am a chess fanatic..!!!!!!!!!

I've got 2 sets.

3-2chess,1chinese chess

Really ind of difficult to say. I have around 4 or 5 of my own but I also keep the clubs sets which is around 40 or so and I donated a bunch of them.

Only 2 -_-. Decorative made from glass and small plastic travel set.

5, though magnetic and marble ones are my favorite type.

I am on my way to a 5th, chessboard that is, not vodka. Chess is driving to drink. I injest plenty of water during my long hours of training.

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4 - a normal one, a portable roll-up one, a chess-computer one, and a mini one!

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I used to have ten but now it's down to six. I believe in giving a set to someone that shows some real interest in chess. My newest is made of olive wood from Jerusalem.

does it happen to have a couple of big nails in it??

I own a professional "Bundesliga" chessboard. - official "Bundesliga" board of the german chess league called Bundesliga.... veneered in mahogany/maple, squares 58 x 58 mm, total 500 x 500 mm.

I purchased it from one in my club he has his own internet chess shop.

I purchased a DGT clock as well.

and I have an old chessboard which I got when I was 5 years old.

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3/4 lost alot of pieces

5 Regular chess sets

6 or 7 i play as much as i can considering im only 13 so i don't have alot of people to play against            Drizzt is the best!!!!!!!!

                                  Fischer is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

A lot more than 20 here are some of them 
 http://www.chess.com/photos/view_album/benjamintorr/coleccion

I own more than 20 sets, they include 6 wooden sets, 9 tournament sets, 3 magnetic sets, 5-6 other sets with hollow pieces of different sizes.

8. 2 tournament sets, 2 travel sets, 1 pocketbook magnetic (you know, the $5 dollar ones)2 XiangQi (chinese chess) 1 go set. (does that count?!)

No mattr how much you play online , the actual touch of a physical board and staring at your opponent is simply scintillating!!

I own 11 sets! Just like to play chess! My favorite game! :D

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I have 4 Chessboards, 1 was my antique (I believe my grandpa's Chess set) and most precious board, the other was my birthday gift from my aunt when I'm about 8 or 9 years old the third one was a big one a tournament size Chessboard and lastly a Eureka Roll-Up Chess set.

i have seen many collectors sets. once saw dragon, greece, and  many other cool ones OMG!!!!!!

I own 15 complete chess sets and boards. I own one chess board made with butterfly wings. It was made in Brazil around 1930's. I got it as a present. Here is the photo.

Look at the colors. Each white square has four butterfly wings each in a triangle. I have it on display on a wall in my living room. I can take it down and play on it. It has protective glass in front to prevent damage. The wings are actually glued to the second glass. If it broke it would be destroyed.

My other large chess board is a Formica imbedded on a table top. I bought it in th 1950 from the Formica Co. It is mounted on wood and I am searching for proper legs for it. It has backgamon settings and we play cards on it.

all of mine have plastic pieces, except for 1 that looks like wood