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I personally am addicted to Chess I buy Chess Sets, chess pieces, chess boards, electronic chess sets and computer chess games and chess software all the time.

Hi I  am Brian Wall and this is my site which is about everything to do with Chess.  Chess is my passion and I probably buy chess sets, far too often, or that is according to my wife.  Come to that I also spend far too much money on chess boards, chess games, chess computers chess software and in fact anything I can find to collect about chess.

If you are vaguely interested in chess you will find something for your on this site, not only have we pulled together some of the best buy chess offers but we have also collected together some of the best articles and videos about every chess subject we can think of.

So if you want to buy chess sets for fun, for an investment or just read up on chess and what is going on in the world of chess this site will have something on it for you.

I mentioned chess sets as an investment; as far as I can see the dearest chess set ever sold was valued at $9.8m a bit of £6m and that was the Jewelled Royale Chess Set.  I must check in my cupboard and see if I have one of them!

Seriously some themed chess sets or antique chess sets are selling for serious money these days and are becoming the must have collectable so the market is write to buy chess sets of age and high quality.

A few quick facts for you

• The games of chess can trace it’s origins back 1500 years to the 6^th century AD in Indian and is thought to be one of the earliest games of skill.
• The longest tournament chess game (in terms of moves) ever to be played was Nikolić-Arsović, Belgrade 1989, which lasted for 269 moves and took 20 hours and 15 minutes to complete a drawn game.
• The number of possible, unique chess games is far greater than the number of electrons in the universe! The number of electrons is estimated to be a mere 10⁷⁹, while the number of unique chess games is 10¹²⁰. In English, that's a thousand trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion games.
• Chess is called the game of kings, because for many centuries it was played primarily by nobility and the upper classes.
• The word "checkmate" comes from the Persian phrase "shah mat," which means "the king is defeated."
• The folding chess board was originally invented in 1125 by a chess-playing priest. Since the Church forbid priests to play chess, he hid his chess board by making one that looked simply like two books lying together

Right I am off to buy chess set from 1125 and see if I can make my fortune, now no bidding on ebay against me if I find one.

One quick question what is the best game of chess you have ever had and why?