Here is a picture quiz on chess that in all the Milky Way vastness of the Internet, you will find only on Kevin Nelson, Writer.. …So you think you can play chess better than a fifth grader? Well, maybe you can-that is, if you can identify the pieces. This is a problem I ran into playing chess with my sons, and now I want to see how well you can identify the pieces in a specialty chess set based on the characters in Lord of the Rings.
Playing chess is one of the challenges in The Dangerous Book for Boys, and thus in the Dangerous Quest, and it was a snap to do because I’ve played chess with my daughter and sons for years. But what I found when I started playing on this movie-based novelty set is that I couldn’t tell which pieces were which, and so Hank, who just graduated from the fifth grade, beat the pants off me. Is this a queen? Wait, it’s a bishop? Oh geez, well then I’ll move my rook. That’s not a rook but the king? Oh come on!
Now here’s your chance to see if you can do better. Below are pictures of chess pieces from Lord of the Rings. Your job is to identify which ones they are-pawn, rook, queen or whatever. Gabe wielded the camera and I put my hand behind each piece because it cut down on the glare in the photo. In the first set of photos we deliberately did not shoot the insignia at the bottom of each piece because that gives away what it is. In the answers section we’ve shown the piece in full frame so you can see what it is.
Got it? Six dark pieces and four light. See if you’re smarter than a fifth grader chess player and tell what they are.
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Answers are here.
Thats a cool chess set. There is one like it at http://www.HighQualityChess.com