Check Mate!

I see this occasionally in a store I go through and every time, no matter HOW busy I am, I stop to stare at it in all of it's glory. It comes and goes based on who buys it and such, but it is so cool. It doesn't hurt that I have a fettish with unique chessboards. I don't quite understand the fascination quite yet, but it is most prevalent.
This particular one is of the Lamanites and the Nephites from the Book of Mormon. If you don't understand how amusing this is to me, please do educate yourself and read the Book of Mormon.

So you might be wondering, what chess set's are out there that I could possibly be compelled to want above your average kind?

Well, there's always the gigantic chess board. I had one of these at my school in the third grade :D We'd play occasionally at recess when we felt like being geeky. Or when the soccer field was too muddy to play on. One of the two. But ours was made out of paper mache so...yeah.

And of course you need to have your medieval chess board. No chess board is complete without a dragon and dragon riders! (I secretly really want this chess board, but then I'd feel like a nerd.)
Ok...so really I need to accept the fact that I am a nerd. Good. Now that we've got that out there I can show you two chess boards that I REALLY want.

Lord of the Rings version:

(and I love how Sam is the pawn's! But why is Frodo the Bishop? What the? The WHOLE story is about Frodo...he should be the king...a very short king.)

And Star Wars:



A Star Wars chess board is my dream of dreams chessboard. Oh...that I could own one. But I have to get the one where Han Solo is the knights versus Boba Fett as the opposite knights. Otherwise it's just not as good.

I do own two really cool Chess boards though...

I own a peruvian one (as seen above) except it's square...and it has Llama's for knights!!!! Mine are also not nasty blue colored...I like to call them the Conquistador's versus the Inca's even though I don't know who they represent.



Last but not least I have a crystal chess set! I asked for this for Christmas and it is glorious! I've only broken one piece so far!

Well, if you've made it this far, thanks for joining me in my geeking out on Chessboards. :D I hope you love them as much as I do! :D

Cupcakes and Chess

Chess never looked quite so delicious, eh? So I've been playing chess weekly with my friend Rick and for the first time last week, I won. But I kinda felt oober bad! Mostly because when I lose to someone whom I should have beaten, I feel perty awful. So I decided to convert my guilt into baking.

We played Chess with cupcakes :D

Sarah was there as a witness...

...and Michael was there to help us eat the pieces that met their demise!

No worries though. I'll never feel bad about winning again. All such feelings fled as Rick maliciously took a huge bite of my King after a smashingly drawn out check mate.