Glass chess sets

 the title of that diamond encrusted skull is "for the love of god".

 i didn't realise

 I was taking your joke and turning it into a MEGA joke, like how the Voltron robots form Voltron, a super robot.

Ha ha!  I lean towards having to drink your captures - it just seems right somehow that the captor should consume his victims, I guess. 

Strategically, you might want to open with a gambit or two and hope your opponent accepts.  That way, maybe you can maintain the mental edge long enough to find a decisive tactic, etc.  :)

One of the worst choices I've seen is on the Lord of the Rings set, where they made the Uruk-Hai the bishops for the black/Sauron side.  They are so much bigger than the other pieces and are so hard to move around, that at least one person I know has swapped them for the rooks by X-acto'ing the little symbols off the bases and pasting them on the other ones.

I think I would play this way too.  Drink your captures. 

After Halloween, we set up chess armies with bite size candy bars (3 Musketeers were obviously knights, white pawns were Hershey Kisses, black pawns were Tootsie Rolls, Butterfingers and Baby Ruths were Bishops, etc.).  The kids would only be allowed to eat their candy if they could capture it.  It made for VERY open games. 

 if their were three musketeers then you will not have enough for knights unless you get 2 three musketeers and then you can use them as knights but you will still have 2  left over ( unless they are eaten )

Lol.  We tried to make any of the candybars with dark wrappers the black pieces, and ones with light wrappers the white pieces.  Therefore, 3 Musketeers (2 of them ) were the white knights.  I think Milky Way was the black knights, but I don't remember for sure.  You can assign them however you want depending on what's in the halloween pail (and what's still left after all the captures). 

Now here's a real chess set!

 looks to expensive for everyday use but that is a good chess set

That IS cool!!!  I love it!!

It seems that I am in the minority as this set is also set up with the clear squares as white, and the frosted ones as black.

The worst chess sets are the Mexican onyx ones, especially with the "Aztec" theme. I remember getting one from my father for Christmas and having to pretend I liked it. Also terrible are the plastic "Renaissance" sets.

The frosted squares are white.  I don't know how there's even a debate about it.

Finally!!!  Someone else who sees them the same way I do!!! 

I can't believe that everyone else wants to make the frosted squares dark, but both pictures in this thread have the clear squares as white, and more than one person has set the board up as frosted=dark rather than frosted=white.

What colour is frost?

 usually white.

I played an two intense games on a glass set and a wooden one to check this out. On glass, moves took about twice as long!

Never minded glass sets, I think they look very nice. A small effort needed to define the position is good for me - it helps me to concentrate on the game more.

so..who has the bigger headache -- the guys with the shotglass set,

or these guys !!