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I hope you are ok. We have not seen any videos from you for a long time. Your web site doesnt work too.

All overpriced on site I got better ones for less

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I bought this set about a week ago. The pieces are so darn slippery. Mostly the Knights and the Pawns are clunky. Good Weight but better for longer chess like 15 Minutes or more. Not very good for Blitz.

I love this. I have the original from the late 80s early 90s. Now I know more about my set!!!!!

You should change the video where you guys are playing. You guys are literally fumbling the pawns on move one and two. It makes me not want to buy the set but I think whoever is playing isn't used to blitz OTB.

Would have liked to have seen the black pieces,yes not all black pieces have the same look

I bought one of these sets in the mid 90s and and still have it. It's a beautiful design and the heft of the pieces is spot on.

That is my favorite design. I have three sets with that design; Excalibur Chess Gear (White), Ultimate Chess Pieces (Yellow), and the Bobby Fischer Series All Metal Chess Set. The Metal Set is my favorite. It is beautiful, shiny, expensive, and Heavy. The entire set weighs 9.5 pounds. That would be a fun set to watch people play Blitz, or Bullet. LOL!

I filed down all the knights tops which had a rather pointed top so that when grabbing the knight piece a player doesn’t get that “pricked” sensation to the fingertips. Now the set is prefect especially for blitz, bullet or lighting type chess games. IMHO.

This didn't age well. In person tournaments are back! Scholastic tournaments specifically have exploded in Southern California with turnouts of 200 to 350 players!

These were a good design and the "butter yellow" was ugly! Now, must share top position for plastic weighted sets! 1) Chess house has eclipsed Ultimate with a better weighted, more height, and nicer design with the Emisario and they have the PRO set at 4 1/4 king and heavier, the quality/ durability is great! 2) House of Staunton has passed the Ultimate set with multiple offerings, that include the "Marshall series, collector series, Fischer series and more! All heavily weighted, nice style and heavier in weight !

Love the design

I really appreciate this video! Thank you. It has helped me considerably.

Where can you buy these?

Nice set. I prefer butter yellow and dar brown. Not a fan of white and black. I'm still using a my chess pieces from my 1985 CXG Computachess 3 set - plastic magnetic 6cm King, light cream colour and dark brown, well made. (NB: sadly the CXG set is faulty)

I an surprised to hear "all" of the major chess tournaments have gone online. Isn't there one huge problem with online chess? Cheating?? How the heck do you stop someone from using a chess engine while playing online? You can't. That is in the advantage of playing in person across the board.

Love chess pieces, have a few sets, just bought this one, arrived today from Amazon, fabulous.

Which clock is that? It looks lovely!

Thanks for the review. I still very much prefer the original Ultimate Set. The proportions and weight was just perfect and I prefer that size. For this 'fat' piece design, anything over 3.5" makes it too big somehow, and the pawns on the newer versions are too big for my taste. On a sidenote, they seem to have used a similar design set in the recently concluded Chess Olympiad in India. Considering it was a FIDE event, it must have been 3.75" sized pieces but looked nicer than the usual German knight DGT pieces.

I hope they make the knight more elegant. It looks like a sea dragon 🐉. Rest of the pieces are ok

What size board is this? Square size?

Beutiful set. Where can i get this chessboard?

I have the yellow version of this set. and waiting for my purchased wooden version of this set arrive.

Are you Daniel LaRusso's lost old brother? Either way, get ready cuz season 5 is gonna have some nasty wax-on-wax-off stuff.

I have version 1 of this set. It is around 23 yrs old and still awesome. It has been my go to set for everything for decades now. It has wonderful weight, wonderful feel, and is nicely weighted for blitz play. I love my original set. I had no idea these were so popular but after owning mine for so long I understand why.

I refuse to buy it because of the Bobby Fisher name.

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I noticed that the black king on my Ultimate Chess set V2 and others the head and the cross is slightly bent to one side but the yellow kings are stright.

Many years ago I had version one of this set. My recollection is that there was mold flashing on some of the pieces that I carefully trimmed off. Fast forward to now; I have purchased and have been playing with version 3. I like the appliance white, the better weighting system, and the heft of these pieces. I have bought three of these sets in the event they are ever discontinued again.

I bought version 3, appliance white. Liked it so much that I bought two additional sets, just in case these are ever discontinued. I love the weight, the solid feel, the knights that don't have protruding thus breakable ears. Great set!!!

What size chess board is this?

Shows my ignorance, I didn’t even know about this set two years ago when I was shopping for plastic sets. I ended up getting the HOS Reykjavik (‘72 F-S) 3.75” set, which is decently weighted, as well as their even heavier more traditional Staunton pattern “Collector” plastic pieces, also 3.75”. Of course the Reykjavik set is the closest in appearance to these men, especially the rooks, but I do like the style of this Ultimate set slightly better, (except for the knights! The HOS set handles those better.). The median set weight of the HOS Reykjavik set is 2.275 lbs., while the HOS Collector plastic set median weight is 3.18 lbs. For whatever reason though, these Ultimate pieces seem much more “playable,” if that makes sense. Thank you for the enjoyable review; based on this I’m a new subscriber, and look forward to additional videos. 👍

Great review - Shelby deserve an award for bringing these back - great plastic set would have been a same to let them fade into the abyss. V3 looks great, improved weight system sounds great, who likes rattling chess pieces? Nobody! I didn't mind the butter color of V2, it kind of grows on you.

Thanks for the review brother..I went ahead and ordered a set

Do these pieces come in yellow and black? And what is the chess silicone board model? Does it come in green? Thanks

Do they have a hollow sound when they clink together?

I have a Druek set that I dearly love, but the dog chewed up. And I think this might be the closest to it and I think I will have to grab this.

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Awesome set now How about a commentary review and overall feelings on set it's been over a year.

How much?

I've had a wooden board with German-knight style pieces for a long time and never thought I'd go back to plastic, especially not during the pandemic. Funny thing is that I've played so much chess online during Covid that now I'm craving to go back to a park or coffee place and play in person, so now I'm geeking around for plastic sets. Thanks so much for this review. It was excellent. I also like the yellow better, but no biggie.

This is hands down your best video. That 10 second clip of you playing with the set sold me. you can just tell by the sound and the way the pieces shake around that it is what you are looking for. that 10 second play footage should become a standard in all your videos.

I'd like to have one set. How that could be done?

How much is a set with board?

I've had the same wooden set since I was 6 (59 now); but I really would like the Version 3 set if I were to some day get larger pieces.

I like both sets :)

This is an honest review of the most recent Version 3 of the Ultimate Chess Pieces. It is an excellent set in terms of design, durability, weighting, stability and overall playability. My only critique regarding this video review is that the reviewer spends too much time belaboring the controversial aspects of the "butterball" yellow (V2) set - enough already!. I believe most would agree that irrespective of color the V3 set is best edition to date in terms of the attributes previously mentioned. If I had to make one suggestion for a future V4 set, it would be to return to the iconic color of the original, V1 set. But at this point, that is probably nit-picking. Bottom line on the V3 set - well done Shelby!