Chess Sets and Chess Sales

Baron Turner — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:53:51 +0000

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ST2018 Elizabethan Chess Set

Baron Turner — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:53:18 +0000

There are lots of Elizabethan chess sets out there in the big wide world, but this one seems extremely nice in the category of quality. The price proves my theory too. But not like it’s extremely expensive. It’s worth the quality you get for these little things. It’s made from crushed marble, and the king it 5 inches tall, which is pretty tall and hefty compared to other sets. If I could pick out my favorite piece, [...]

ST2017 American Civil War Chess Set

Baron Turner — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:52:50 +0000

This is a Civil War chess set from Chess Baron. Nothing too ‘out there’ with this set, but it’s still nice. No eye candy in the pieces, but they do look very well made. especially the knight, who looks like someone spent alot of time and effort on. The price is extremely high though. You could get a set even better than this one on Chess Baron for half as much. But hey, that’s just my own opinion. You may [...]

TH2066 Hand Painted Winnie the Pooh Chess

Baron Turner — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:21:07 +0000

Awww, another Winnie the Pooh set from ChessBaron. I love this set because of the fact that not only do I love the show, but it brings back old memories long forgotten of my child hood. Kind of brings you back to the wonderful world of being a kid again. And I especially love the chess board that is included with this set. All themed up with Winnie the Pooh characters, specially coloured squares, and a story that reads “Pooh had forgotten how to play chess and the more he thought about [...]

TH2065 Winnie the Pooh Chess Pieces

Baron Turner — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:18:30 +0000

Now, this is a set of chess pieces I might actually want. Winnie the Pooh use to be my favorite show when I was a kid. That’s practically all I ever watched. I didn’t think anyone still remembered that show enough to make something after it. Awww piglet, you’re so cute. You too Winnie. And get glad Eor. It’s all okay. As for the quality - all the pieces look really nicely carved, with some pretty good quality material used [...]

TH2064 Peter Rabbit Hand Painted Chess Pieces With Board and Case

Baron Turner — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:16:29 +0000

Awww, how cute. I love these little figures. I almost forgot I’m looking at a chess set. Little cute foxies reading books, and duckys dressed up like my grandma. And some other animal in a little bonnet. I can keep on describing each piece for you but I’m pretty sure you can see for yourself. But they are just so cute, and I’m not sure why. Wait - guys arn’t suppose to think things are cute. woops. Hope none of my homies stumble upon this article. I must change [...]

TH2063 Peter Rabbit Chess Set With Board and Case

Baron Turner — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:14:59 +0000

Ya know - I hate when I come across a set that just has nothing interesting to write about it. But that thought didn’t even come close to going though my head when I first saw this set. So much to say about this set! It makes no sense unless it’s based off of some Disney movie I’ve never heard of. Rabbits, squirrels, possums - just where to begin? And why are the possum thingys reading books? and squirrels trading nuts? Rabbits wearing jackets? Ohhhhhhh, I just don’t [...]

TH2062 SAC Battle of Trafalgar Hand Painted Chess Set

Baron Turner — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:11:14 +0000

This set kind of resembles some other sets Chessbaron offers on their site. It’s based on the old English army during the time of the civil war. Plus it’s hand painted. Which I don’t know who cares. A machine can paint just as well, and you don’t have to pay those things, but whatever floats your boat. Pretty accurate interpretation of the good ole days though. I love the detail that looks like was put into this. It really looks like a nice collectors set if your into [...]

SAC Decorative Chess Sets Chess Computers Chess Boards Chess Pieces

Baron Turner — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:53:16 +0000

A fantastic chess set in a decorative range - the Gods of Mythology set of chess pieces has stolen the focus for potential chess buyers. The above picture shows why. The excellent photography shows a certain appeal to the males, but the chap is pretty good looking too - right? All in all, a [...]

Chess Sets from Decorative Chess Leaders SAC

Baron Turner — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:35:29 +0000

Leaders in decorative chess sets - SAC have completely overhauled their web site and their businesss! They now stock more than just their superb theme chess range and stock staunton chess, travel chess and even chess computers. SAC is the brand that is more recognised in the world than any other [...]

Chess Software

Baron Turner — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:16:33 +0000

Our favourite chess store has now started stocking the whole range of chess software titles. With Fritz 11 now available and being the main chess software item in demand in the chess community, the whole [...]

Are you Linked In?

Baron Turner — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:53:27 +0000

In Web 2.0 networking - the site Linked-in is a useful SEO resource for outgoing links without the nofollow tag being used and for keeping [...]

Electronic Chess at its Finest

Baron Turner — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:08:52 +0000

The Novag Star Rub is a superb example of electronic chess. Whilst the Excalibur NY22 has beaten most of it’s rivals into a cocked hat with functionality, the Ruby still wins through with it’s slimline shape and it’s well thought out graphics. The model is one of the best of Novags [...]

Chess Store Product Feed

Baron Turner — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:13:28 +0000

This store feed for chess computers, electronic chess from a UK chess retailer is an example of the power of RSS feeds from search engine optimisation companies such as TurnerDow.com in an increasingly competitive online space. As consumers become more and more savvy with respect to purchasing online, taking advantage of alternative, free means of [...]

Chess Sets in the USA

Baron Turner — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:11:21 +0000

A truly amazing chess sets store in the US is called ChessBaron USA, one of the family of stores owned by Baron Turner and Jonathan Stefanczyk. They have over 300 different kinds of chess sets with traditional, themes and unusual categories. We’ve never seen such great designs with [...]

Artificial Intelligence in Chess Computing

Baron Turner — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:49:34 +0000

As seen in pages such as this one on chess computer intelligence, the science of chess computing is alive and kicking at Cambridge University. Chess sets have the social edge but chess computers have the scientific community more engaged. The number of departments in universities across the world engaged in using chess for the furtherance and testing of computing power and computing technology is [...]

Turnaround Finance, Company Rescue

Baron Turner — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:07:25 +0000

Turnaound finance, company rescue. With worsening trade conditions in Europe and the USA - more and more companies are looking at difficulties through financial difficulty. Companies that help failing companies are growing in importance and Beer and Young are the leaders in that field. Rather than just encourage controlled failure in suffeering companies, Beer and Young company rescue services are positive [...]

New Electronic Chess Industry Blog

Baron Turner — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:27:54 +0000

Growingly in chess circles, Electronic chess as an industry is a critical part of chess retailing, and a new blog at www.chess-computers.co.uk does a great job of showing how it works - especially in the UK. There’s a post on who dominates chess computer sales in the [...]

The New Excalibur Handheld - a boon to Chess Retailers

Baron Turner — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:39:12 +0000

Wow! As Excalibur were unresponsive to our demands for more stock of the 404-D talking touch chess computer - what a result - a new chess computer that beats it’s [...]

Chess Web Optimisation Specialists?

Baron Turner — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:45:10 +0000

In the shrouded world of search engine optimisation, there is now a specialist in optimising websites for favourable placement within search engine results pages. This is obviously a recipe for conflicts of interest, but there is enough variance in the genre to be able to [...]

Alert of Chess Computer and Chess Clock New Blogs

Baron Turner — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:15:57 +0000

Hey - at last - two blogs dedicated to Chess Computers and chess clocks - the site chesscomputer.co.uk and chessclock.co.uk. In retail terms - for any chess retail site, chess computers have become a major factor in sales - [...]

The History of Chess

Baron Turner — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:03:37 +0000

Chess is said to be one of the oldest games of skill known to man. Some historians claim that the history and origin of chess can be traced down to as early as the 2nd century, and its country of origin to be China. In China, at that time [...]

Lighten Up - Chess is Fun

Baron Turner — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:03:05 +0000

Two sites that promote Chess Puzzles which will surely enhance your chess playing abilities.

There are 3 variations of chess puzzles today.

Orthodox and Tactical Chess Puzzles

GPS, Base, Froogle - or whatever they’re calling it today

Baron Turner — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:46:33 +0000

This example can be seen at GPS chess sets. In chess sales - it’s a great idea to [...]

Web 2.0 and Chess Sales

Baron Turner — Sat, 05 May 2007 21:43:32 +0000

Take for example this site for chess computer listings in squidoo, or this eSnips page on chess computers and their electronic merits by a chess retailer. How do they affect sales? How does Web 2.0 [...]

Novag Obsidian Chess Computer

Baron Turner — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:38:10 +0000

As one of the manufacturing leaders of electronic chess computers, the novag company have done a superb job of this machine. Concentrating on the software, they have made a very strong chess engine for this price level. The [...]

The Novag Citrine Chess Computer

Baron Turner — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:23:49 +0000

The Citrine is now foremost Chess Computer for all singing, all dancing electronic chess. Man, this thing aint cheap - but it justifies it’s price tag by [...]

ChessForums.org

Baron Turner — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:56:19 +0000

Have you visited this great chess forum yet? It’s a perfect place to whine about those awful chess retailers or something else about the game, questions (why does the horsey have to move in that awkward way?), opinions, etc. Maybe you [...]

Microsoft’s Attempt to Gain Search through ie7?

Baron Turner — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:19:25 +0000

This was posted (by me) on Matt Cutts site (Goolges face to the world) - I want to know that someone from Google knows about this.
Has anyone noticed that with the browser ie7 the google search facility (generally top right) only has searches through Google.com if Google are chosen for searching the web? [...]

Chess Sales in Cyber Malls

Baron Turner — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:32:46 +0000

Update: This company (eDirectory) proved to be somewhat useless and were just interested in taking money - no sales resulted.

Good reason to run to a website search engine optimisation company - ranking in the organics is somewhat precarious whilst Google is still in adolescance. [...]

The Japanese Theme Chess Set

Baron Turner — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:50:52 +0000

What an unusual chess design - the Japanese Chess Set! Who would ever buy such a thing - it’s ugly, it’s weird, it’s strange,R [...]

Which woods are used in chess manufacture?

Baron Turner — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:43:49 +0000

Introduction
For good quality chess pieces the woods used are Ebony, Bud Rosewood, Redwood and Rosewood. For lesser quality but still excellent chess pieces, the wood used is Boxwood and Sheesham. For cheap chess pieces the wood is generally not genuine, but is reconstituted wood.

One Page Online Chess Stores - Not such a bad idea

Baron Turner — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:16:03 +0000

Have you noticed these one page chess stores such as the UK Chess Store ChessBaron? Well, not actually one-page. But through RSS feeds all the store’s products are displayed on one page, so where the feed occurs it’s just one page. You then visit the chess store through one of the [...]

Chess Design: The Amazing Ultimate Knight

Baron Turner — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 15:08:54 +0000

Imagine you are a chess manufacturer. Constrained by the staunton genre, how do you come up with designs that are significantly different yet in the staunton camp? The designer of the Ultimate chess set (also known as the Napolean) came up with it - and many more designs besides - flair, art, maybe a touch [...]

Chess Sets Online Retailing - Dealing with Aggressive Unethical Competition

Baron Turner — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 17:13:47 +0000

As a chess set online retailer - what does one do when competitors get closer and closer to the throat? When they threaten to make a ‘personal visit’? When they publish some web defamation? And steal photography and other content to use in selling their knock-offs?

A maturing internet has allowed [...]

Why have weighted Chess Pieces?

Baron Turner — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:33:14 +0000

Good chess sets have weighting added to the bottom of the pieces. The base is hollowed out, lead poured in, and the base sealed and capped with a leather or felt disc to hide any imperfections. When I first saw a chess piece without the weighting and with the base apart from the piece, it was a kinda let-down. You [...]

Chess Design: The Lotus Chess Set

Baron Turner — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 20:39:29 +0000

Available in Ebony or Rosewood, Lotus chess pieces go back in time some way, and continue to attract customers. As a staunton lover, I don’t quite find myself attracted as much as many appear to be, but the lotus chess set [...]

Chess Retail: Drop Shipping Chess Sales

Baron Turner — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:34:18 +0000

Theme chess sets, chess clocks, chess computers, all of these are periferal to our main business. So our sales of them don’t carry as much profit, but hey, we don’t have to stock them or handle the problems with purchasing, returns, etc. But if only the man blowing bubbles at the top of the diagram [...]

Couriers for our Chess Sales - Oh Dear!

Baron Turner — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 19:55:57 +0000

Well, kinda. Only they make us do it instead of themselves. It’s not as if we don’t give a reasonable business over the months. We have many parcels, some small some large, but courier profit margins are so thin that they appear to try anything on to make that little extra. Our packages from chess [...]

Whats the Appeal of a Theme Chess Set?

Search Engine Optimisation — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:02:10 +0000

In our online chess store in the UK - 25% of the chess set range are theme chess sets. They are wonderful productions with great attention to detail in the design of the chess set. Whether Isle of Lewis, Staunton to work with. Sure - we all know where we are, we all know which one is the pawn and which the bishop, and the queen has her head-dress, etc., but it has all kinda done away with the amazing artistic display of pre-staunton times. Then, if a religious theme were requested - no problem. If a battle theme, same again. Different periods of history gave way to wonderful representative [...]

Chess Sales and the Football World Cup

Baron Turner — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 21:22:03 +0000

Retailers the football (soccer) world over are…. enjoying the football, yelling for their side… but also wailing about the retail dry-up it has brought along. Germany must be doing well for retailing - at least the part of Germany where there are hundreds of thousands of football fans to see their teams slug it out for the [...]

Which Wood is Preferred in Chess Piece Design?

Baron Turner — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:52:00 +0000

It seems traditionalists prefer Ebony Chess Pieces, whilst the asthetically minded prefer Bud Rosewood chess - what have you found? I run a store in the UK and people choose Bud Rosewood chess pieces much more than Ebony - with [...]

Chess Retailing and Buying from a Third World Country

Baron Turner — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:24:57 +0000

It’s no secret that the vast majority of decent chess sets are made in a small area of India. The country that claims to have invented the game has the ‘privilege’ of supplying the world with it’s excellent designs. Whether it’s Pleasant Times, JS Arts, Ivory Works, Checkmate (and many others), the [...]

What’s so special about the Isle of Lewis Chess Set?

Baron Turner — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 20:04:58 +0000

What is it about the Isle of Lewis chess set that gives it the aura of wonderment resulting in it representing a significant chunk of chess sales? It’s not Staunton and can’t be used in tournament play. It’s kinda confusing which piece is which with some exceptions. There are many [...]

Is it just Adwords, or is all of Google gone Evil?

Search Engine Optimisation — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 18:09:10 +0000

This pic is an attempt by someone to work out the interplay between adwords and adsense. Kinda scary huh? I run a small online chess retailing outfit - just about provides [...]