Competition Scholastic Chess Clock

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The new Competition Game Clock is sleek, stylish and brightly colored. Its unique Coaches Favorite feature allows you to edit and save your favorite timer mode. The design is durable and easy to clean and has versatile multiple game options. Two large clear LCD screens display remaining time accurate to the second, as well as countdown and move features etc. Large, simple controls offer 10 timer modes; Blitz, Tournament, Game and User, plus your Coachs Favorite. Two large LCD displays, with 17mm high digits Versatile - multiple game options Unique - Coachs Favorite setting - instant access to your favorite settings 4-way control pad - easy navigation through modes One button game restart Large time control buttons with color/illumination for easy 360 degree visibility Option to turn off illumination and sound Timer modes include Blitz, Tournament, Game and User Requires 2 x C batteries
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- Very durable with an attractive metallic blue exterior
- Easy to use with 14 pre-sets. Two large LCD displays, with 17mm high digits
- Save your favorite time control
- Digital Chess Clock with 5 second delay feature.
- This is the best priced chess clock for the tournament chess player
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 "Single Shortcoming Ruins this Timer" 2009-10-18
By Garry Hood
This timer was very difficult to set up. Then, after all the trouble, I find that in the 25 minute mode, it only counts down by minutes, not seconds, despite the fact that there are 4 digits available on the display in other modes with countdowns by minutes and seconds. The 25 minute mode is the standard for Scrabble brand game tournaments. For me that's a deal buster. I'm sending the unit back. Fortunately, Amazon makes returns really easy.

 "Quality clock, good design." 2009-08-24
By Jason Ammerman
Easy menus. Many options. Good quick shutoff. Heavy, has a quality feel to the device. The buttons light up, which is a cool.

 "Chess Clock for LIFE" 2009-07-29
By William I. Dube (San Diego, CA United States)
Giving this Timer anything less than five stars is unfair!!!



WEIGHT is good before adding batteries and perfect afterwords.

Using this timer is a snap once you get used to the fact you are adjusting a six digit time with a four digit display .

There are several preset functions to this timer allowing you just about as many combinations for timing as there are moves on a chess board.



Function 3C allows you to set the time per move for each player. It is preset to a blazing 5sec per move. When changing the time per move you have to change both players separately. This feature allows one player to be handicapped additional time if necessary. We set our clock to five mins per move in 3C.



Being new to the game I wanted to find out more about timing and rules of chess. WOW there are so many to choose from. All my research concluded that the most important thing is to agree to the rules and timing before the game starts.



Buy this timer, it is thrifty, durable, and with proper care should last a lifetime.

My only regret is that there is no sound only alarm function. (If they had this I'd use it daily in my kitchen.)



LASTLY: Lock your settings after you get the clock the way you want it.

 "Chess Clock!" 2009-06-27
By David B. Anderson (Annex, OR USA)
This "toy" really is useful for the serious chess player who's into speed chess, or for the chess player who just wants to know how long a game really takes. The instructions are a bit fuzzy, but a little experimentation and a few re-reads of the pamphlet finally got me started. It took about thirty minutes to figure out the controls to make it work.

 "great price for a good clock" 2009-06-12
By Fairthought (Colorado, USA)
I went looking for a lowest price chess clock I could find, having the opinion that most chess clocks were way overpriced. I decided on this one over mechanical clocks to avoid the annoying tick tock those models can make, especially the cheaper ones. At first I was dismayed by the battery it uses, a more expensive C battery instead of the more common AA/AAA batteries, but as soon as I started using it I loved this clock. Its sturdy, with a wide base so slapping the buttons won't knock it over. Programming the clock is not intuitive, it took me some tinkering before I figured out how to adjust times and get the fisher clock setting. There are also instructions for those who can't figure it out. A green light indicates whose turn it is, a red light indicates who ran out of time. There is also a buzzer, you can toggle these on or off, or choose both.


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Drueke 877.10 Magnetic Chess Set

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This easy-to-transport set allows you to play chess anywhere, anytime. The Magnetic Chess Set is perfect for long car and plane rides. The plastic chessmen are equipped with a magnetic bottom so they won't move or slide when you encounter some rough terrain. The magnetic set is also perfect for when time is short. Squeeze in as much chess as you can during break, place it away when time is up, and then return to your game with the pieces exactly where you left them during your next free moment.
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Technical Details

- 1" Playing squares
- .75" Magnetic plastic chessmen
- For ages 13 to adult
- 90 day warranty
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 "drueke chess set review" 2009-06-05
By J. Lallo (portland, or)
it's a nice set. i love that you can save your game, unlike the other boards that fold in half. the magnets are fairly strong. it's somewhat hard to tell the pawns from the bishops. a tiny dab of white paint would fix that.



the lid doesn't really lock onto the base when you close it. so far this hasn't been a problem, but i feel that it should 'lock' on there somehow.



it's the best travel chess set i've had.

 "Convenient, portable Chess Set for people on the go" 2009-05-14
By C. Reichley
Overall, I like this chess set. It is a great value for the price, and fulfills it's purpose, to play chess on travel or on the go. For example, my son and I played chess at a theme park while waiting in line for rides, and my son uses it on the school bus.



Positives: Case is well-built, seems strong enough, my son threw the closed set to me 15 feet away, landing it on the pavement, and the case was not damaged. Pieces really stick to the board, and are short enough you can close the box, put it in your backback, get it out later, and your game is intact. It's big enough to see and move the pieces (I've had tiny sets). But it's small enough to fit in a backback and to hold easily with one hand while moving pieces with the other. Case is attractive.



Negatives: Case and pieces are plastic, and on the aforementioned throw, one of tiny tabs marking a rook broke off. All the pieces are the same size, and the bishops look too much like pawns -- but people have fixed that by putting a dot of paint on the Bishop heads, and we will do that soon.



Biggest negative: The paint is wearing off the black squares, and we've only had this a month or two. The problem is the magnets are strong, and if you slide your pieces, the friction is like sanding the board. You really need to pick up the pieces to move them, but then you have to be careful because if you go too close you can magnetically pull other pieces off the board. I don't know if this is peculiar to our board, because it seems a thin coat of clear finish would have solved this problem. We might contact the company to see if we can get a replacement, but it looks like it would be easy enough to repaint if we had to.



But the paint doesn't come off MUCH, so it's still easy to tell which square is which.

 "Total Disappointment" 2009-05-08
By Eric Barnett
I don't often review a product, but I was so totally disappointed in this 4.5 star product that I felt a need to voice my thoughts. First of all the chess set only came with 7 black pawns. Thus the game was not even playable. Second the peices are plastic crap. It is hard to tell peices apart. Third the lid does not fit tightly on the gamebox (it would fall off if turned upside down) What is the point of the lid if it would not stay on when placed in a backpack, etc. If this product was priced at $9.99 I would not complain much. I returned this junk for a refund.

 "Best practice chess set ever!" 2009-04-15
By CEK (Ames, Iowa United States)
I have had many a chess set in my day, and this set exceeds all others in leaps and bounds as far as personal practice is concerned. I often travel to coffee shops etc to study, and this board is ideal! It's very slim and relatively wide (as opposed to a chunky board that folds in half), and is therefore very easy to slip into a bag where another chess set might be awkward. The beauty of not having to fold it in half and pack the pieces inside to transport it is that you can have a position set up, close it up and take it somewhere else, and resume your study without having to record the position or reset-up the board.



The magnets in this board are UNBELIEVABLE. You can carry this board, fully set up in some random position and sitting completely on its side, in your bag for days and not a single piece will shift. In fact, you can shake it up in all directions and not a piece will move a millimeter! That's where this board really shines, and why it's invaluable for personal study and for travel. The pieces are also very distinct (I don't know about you, but I HATE it when the bishops look like pawns and the knights look like blobs), although there were some plastic bits sticking off the pieces from the molding process when I got the board, which I easily trimmed off with a small scissors. I also glued the magnets onto the bottom of the pieces, although it didn't seem that any pieces were in danger of becoming unseated. My only issue is that it can be hard to tell the bishops from the pawns from the top, and so I used a sharpie marker and white-out to opposite-color the tips of the bishops, which easily remedied the problem. I have a friend (for whom I bought this board) who didn't off-color the bishop tops, and he's always blaming his losses on mistaking an enemy bishop for a pawn. ;)



Now onto what I don't like about this board: Because the board has a lip, and the pieces are short (so that you can close the lid with them set up), it can be hard to get a horizontal view of the board, which I like to be able to do. You're much more limited to looking at the board from above, although you get used to it and I wouldn't consider it a hindrance to study. I will play my friend who has this board on it, since we're both used to it, but I might feel like I had an advantage playing someone unused to the board. Of course, it's not a big deal and you absolutely could use it for a game board if you wanted. I also don't like that when the pieces are around the edge of the board (I usually stick them there when they're captured), the top doesn't sit right (although it closes and stays closed fine, it just sits slightly askance). On my friend's board, some of the white pieces are slightly different colors, as if they came form 2 different batches, although all my pieces match.



Overall, I LOVE this board, would recommend it to ANYONE, and would be personally insulted if you didn't buy one immediately. ;)

 "Nice for travel, but you won't use it for anything else" 2009-04-08
By Mark D. Jones (Huntsville, AL United States)
Bought this for my kid for Christmas based on all the good reviews. Got to wonder if they got a different version of the game than we did.



Its nice you can close the lid and later resume your game.



What isn't nice is that the paint sticks to the magnets better than to the board surface. The Bishops and pawns are almost identical, and the pieces are ultra cheap (the top edges of the rook break way too easily)



Saw a different set at SupernationalsIV for last week for $3 that has all the features of this set, and NONE of the drawbacks. The $3 set was smaller, fits in a shirt pocket, could be closed and game resumed later etc....



Also, it doesn't label the ranks and files, so recording your game is more difficult.



Not worth the price.


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