DOCTOR WHO Chess Set

Product Information

A trap in the Tomb of Rassilon resembled a chess board. Nothing happened until a visitor reached the fifth row; then the board became a giant death trap. ( TV: The Five Doctors) RIGHT TO ADMISSION| Hansons reserves the right to refuse admission to any of its auctions without giving a reason. Group Captain Ian Gilmore was not fond of chess, claiming that "wars are fought on battlefields, not chessboards." ( AUDIO: Peshka) At a Gobi Desert camp in 1289, Marco Polo challenged Ian Chesterton to a game of chess. Tegana considered it a "fascinating game of strategy of war". ( TV: " The Singing Sands") Tegana would later play a game against Marco Polo. Susan would also play a game against Ping-Cho. ( PROSE: Marco Polo) The Eleventh Doctor once claimed that the Time Lords had invented chess, and making it "[their] game". ( TV: Nightmare in Silver) However, another account showed that they favoured variant of the game which was known as four-dimensional chess and was described as having been "adapted from Earth chess". It shared the latter's basic rules, but also involved "multiple levels", "the ability to dematerialise pieces from the board and have them materialise elsewhere on later turns of the game", and time-travelling pieces. ( GAME: The Iytean Menace [+] J. Andrew Keith, The Doctor Who Role Playing Game ( FASA, 1985).)

Doctor Who Chess Set - Unseen Intriguing Sets [2023 Coolest]

Cotton and Stubbs use pipes instead of normal pieces in a game aboard Skybase One. ( TV: The Mutants) There’s not a ton of information available about this Dr Who chess set at this time, as it hasn’t been released yet, but you can probably figure out if you want it or not just from the picture.Doctor Who” is the accepted moniker of an immortal, time-traveling alien who, oddly enough, appears quite human. Haresh Chandra taught Luke Smith how to play chess and was subsequently beaten by him six times in a row. ( TV: The Eternity Trap) If a fan of the erratic, tenacious Time Lord lands on your gift list, you’re probably overwhelmed by the sheer volume of collectible Doctor Who doodads. Please note all furniture is sold as a work of art, not for functional use in a domestic setting. Upholstered items which do not comply with fire regulations will be sold for their structural and artistic value only, not for household use in their current state. Fire Safety Regulations do not apply to furniture intended for export and furniture manufactured prior to 1950. Darius Pike (with the help of K9 Mark 2) played chess against Starkey (aided by Jorjie Turner). Starkey beat him. The particular chessboard on which they were playing had animals as the chess pieces. ( TV: The Fall of the House of Gryffen) Starkey later lost to K9. ( TV: The Cambridge Spy)

Doctor Who Gifts for Temporally Challenged Time Lords 55 Doctor Who Gifts for Temporally Challenged Time Lords

The Master, a renegade Time Lord who would stop at nothing to reach his goal – the total domination of time and space. The Daleks, created by Davros in the laboratories of Skaro, became the most feared of the Doctor’s enemies. The Cybermen, metal robots with nothing left of their original humanoid form but their evil minds. In the 2010s, Coal Hill School included a big floor chessboard for its pupils. ( TV: The Caretaker) The Eleventh Doctor once played Bobby Fischer and refused to do so again because it went "very wrong." He also had a habit of playing himself and was disappointed because every time he played chess against himself he lost. ( PROSE: Dark Horizons) The Eleventh Doctor played a game against a Cyber-Planner (calling himself Mr Clever) that had attempted to possess him, with the prize being total control over the Doctor's mind. However, the game was inconclusive as the Doctor used his turn in control to destroy the Cyber-Planner with a hand pulse. ( TV: Nightmare in Silver) The Eleventh Doctor also cornered Gantok in a game of live chess, though he conceded when the man promised to help him in exchange for the win. ( TV: The Wedding of River Song) When they were captured by the Master, Jo Grant and the Third Doctor played draughts against each other. Jo won and took all the Doctor's remaining pieces. The Doctor complained that the trouble with this game was that it was too simple. Furthermore he mentioned that he was more used to playing three dimensional chess. ( TV: The Mind of Evil) Well, you can imagine our giddy squeals when we discovered that the two have been combined to create this Dr Who Chess Set. Taking everybody’s favorite characters from the 5th series – including the bow-tie-wearing Doctor himself – this compelling collection pitches goodies versus baddies. Ever thought chess was a dull game? Try going up against a Cyberman. Come along, Pond!Humphrey, a fictional character created by Annette Billingsley, was taught chess by his grandfather and used his knowledge to beat a minor villain in one of Billingsley's The Troubleseekers novels. When a Ch'otterai brought The Troubleseekers fictional world to life, the Tenth Doctor encountered the robber and agreed to his challenge of a game of chess. However, the Doctor said it was inevitable that he would win because he had never lost a game of chess except to a metal dog which did not count, so he refused to play the game and claimed victory anyway. ( PROSE: The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage) In the 52nd century, a variant of chess called live chess was favoured. Each piece had an electrical current; each time a piece was moved, the current became stronger. ( TV: The Wedding of River Song) Not exactly sure what to procure? Quite confused by all the aliens, a time-traveling call box, and a rotating cast representing a singular Doctor?