Have you ever been refused to play chess on your equipment?

You or someone you know.

Of course if your chess set was pink or red or something like that no one would play you, but did you(or someone you know) has been refused to play on a set pretty normal, but for some reason they said no? For example pieces was to heavy or light, or chess board not the right size or chess clock anolog not digital or chess board is not wooden or.... blabla

So please tell us your story where you or someone you know has been refused to play with, because of their chess equipment.

You can post pics if you like so we all can see or just tell the story which ever you prefer

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Has to be Staunton design.   As nice as those fancy, smancy sets are.  You are not required to play on it.

Color combiantion has to be:

Black/White

Blue/White

Brown/White

Green/White

I have a real nice heavy-weighted wood set with a 3 3/4" King and the set sits nicely on the typical 2.25" square boards used in USCF tournaments.  Once I played a guy who had Black and therefore, under USCF Rule 39A, had the choice of sets and he preferred a cheap, unweighted set he owned because the King was a little taller.  The pieces had large bases and didn't fit well on the board and he was constantly calling out "adjust."  He was rated less than me and lost and it seemed like he hesitated when he played the game all the way to mate as if he was looking for something to object about!

I didn't know then that the USCF does have a rule (maybe it's newer), 41C Proportions, that the diameter of the base of the king should occupy "around" 78% of the square on the chessboard (if you treat the diameter like the sides of a square).  The rule says divide the King's base by 0.78 to get the smallest size of square recommended - I can't say "allowed" because that "around" I quoted before allows for some leeway. The rule also says the square size "may be up to 1/8" larger" than the the calculated number. "For example, a set of chessmen having a king with a 1.75" diameter base will play well on a board with 2 1/4" to 2 3/8" squares.

The rule is seldom enforced.  For example, a lot of the sets sold at chess sites and on Amazon have kings with 1.875" bases and they come with 2.25" squares boards.  But 1.875"/0.78 is 2.40"!

So the rule is seldom, if ever enforced - as a scholastic TD I objected to large sets on less than 2" squares and the major chess team schools in our school system had plenty of boards, sets, and clocks so we were never at a loss when teenagers didn't bring their own equipment for our Swiss System tournaments.