Pressman Giant Garden Chess Set

by Pressman Toy

Product Features

• Pressman giant garden chess set
• Checkmate the king in this giant set to win
• Set contains plastic pieces measuring 4 to 8? tall and a 3-foot square mat
• For 2 players
• Ages 8 and up

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 15.5 x 11 inches ; 8.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000FKOXBC
• Item model number: 1011-03
• Manufacturer recommended age: 8 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,088 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Pressman Giant Garden Chess Set. Checkmate the king in this giant set to win. Set contains plastic pieces measuring 4 to 8 inches tall and a 3-foot square mat. For 2 players, ages 8 and up.

Product Description

The classic game of chess takes on a fun twist with this whimsical game set. Great for family picnics and outdoor gatherings, the Giant Garden Chess Set includes enormous plastic chess pieces, measuring from 4 to 8 inches tall. A 3' x 3' square mat gives you a smooth, level playing surface, even on grass. It's fun for the whole family!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Kids Absolutely Love This Chess Set...., March 29, 2007

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Learning All The Time "It's Never Too Late to... (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pressman Giant Garden Chess Set (Toy)

This chess set is wonderful, it has inspired at least two children who have been to our home to learn how to play chess.

My own children love playing with this set. In addition to playing chess, sometimes they recreate the Fritz and Chesster games they've played and printed from the computer, sometimes they make up puzzles for each other "Move one piece and put my king into check", sometimes they haul the chess pieces around the house to do double duty for some other imaginative play venture.

I do wish there was some way to weight the pieces, they are hollow plastic with felt bottoms. I've debated opening them up to put sand inside of them, but haven't done so yet. Anyway, I'm not sure how this game would hold up outside on a windy day, but regardless, we have been very pleased with this chess set.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inexpensive giant chess board for outdoor use, December 2, 2008

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Michael A. Duvernois (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Pressman Giant Garden Chess Set (Toy)

This is great for chess instruction for a whole group. Everyone can see the board well. Also use it outdoors, "garden chess" in decent weather.

Very nice for what it is, though the pieces, 4-8" tall, are a bit lighter than I would have hoped. As someone else noted, they are hollow and could have sand or something similar to fill them and weigh them down. It's on the to-do list...

16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ARE THEY KIDDING? DO NOT BUY ......THIS GAME CANNOT BE PLAYED!, December 26, 2010

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I. Speakthetruth "THOUGHTS WORTH READING" (CT) - See all my reviews

= Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Pressman Giant Garden Chess Set (Toy)

I've read every single review here before ordering this chess set and the basically positive reviews are what made me purchase this set. Well was I ever disappointed when we opened this set and tried to place the pieces on the LUMPY plastic playing board! It is amazing to me that NO ONE mentioned the horrible excuse for a playing "board" (which I KNEW would be a plastic mat but is it too much to expect a FLAT mat?) and they only talk about the playing PIECES. This is odd to me, as I cannot be the only person receiving this lumpy mat! There is NO WAY to flatten this mat. (And by the way, the person who wrote detailed instructions about how to drill holes in the bottoms of the playing pieces, where during the process the bottoms could "pop out" [not to mention crack???] and fill them with EXACTLY a certain amount of [purchased] sand, then again travel to a store to purchase glue, plastic, felt etc. to FIX the lightweight pieces....then do this 32 times?....is he kidding? I'd rather get a root canal! Talk about someone having TIME on their hands! All this for a $40 set? Why not use the money to buy a better set in the first place? Also WHY shoud I have to do an elaborate REPAIR on a chess set in order to make it usable? I was not looking for a high quality set for $40, just a fun larger set for my daughter to play with and since the pieces are plastic they are what they are, seamed molded plastic, period, pretty much what I expected. Also to me they COULD have been weighted, but I can think of a lot easier ways to weight them than the elaborate process from the man with time on his hands....weighting them is only necessary IF you choose to play this game outdoors in such HIGH WIND that it blows the pieces down! My my. MY problem is with the plastic MAT they supply as a "playing board". The set arrived in a cardboard box and the mat was folded several times into a tiny package, inside. The mat is made out of fairly thick vinyl, so the FOLDS DO NOT FLATTEN OUT and it makes the board not usable! FAR FROM THE PHOTO SHOWN! I checked back to view the photos shown for this product on Amazon, which showed a perfectly flat playing "board" in more than one photo, and I thought "this is very deceptive!" You try and place the pieces on the lumpy "board" and it is just ridiculous. A SIMPLE SOLUTION of better packaging could have avoided this lumpy playing surface, perhaps rolling the mat instead, and packaging the entire set in a longer narrow package to accommodate the rolled mat. I plan on contacting the manufacturer tomorrow (they are closed on Sunday) to see if they have a solution to flatten the vinyl or to send me a replacement board that can be shipped rolled or flat (I kind of doubt it though) but I am betting they will just suggest a refund instead.....which leaves me back to square one with no chess set, much disappointment and a child who has to send a gift back! Unless they package this playing mat differently I'd say do not by this product. If I could have given a minus 5 rating I would have (for lack of common sense in packaging this product, and selling this product ridiculously folded, which basically runs the playing surface).