The Noble Collection Star Trek Tri-Dimensional Chess Set - 32 Highly Detailed Plastic Chess Pieces - Officially Licensed Star Trek TV Show Game Gifts

I’m a lifelong fan of Chess and Star Trek. I’ve already got the original product released by the Franklin Mint and this new product is just as good from the Noble Collection. The pieces are plastic but have a good weight and a nice feel. The rules are included so you can play with opponents if you have a mind to learn the game. It’s different to normal chess but not wildly different. Looks nice in a study or on a small side table.

It's a great collection for.any star trek fan hard to play but great for display

Lot better quality than first thought

If you actually enjoy playing the game, the noble collection board is frustrating and hard to use. It's hard to show in a single photo but none of the squares overlap as they should, or even by the same amount. Whoever designed it clearly had no interest in the product other than making something shiny for collectors. The rule book, as expected, was scant, unplayable and I had to find them on the World Tri Dimensional Chess Federation site to play: http://w3dcf.com/information/laws Also, for the price paid, I should have expected slightly better quality attack boards. It is a shame, as the stand is nicely finished and will clearly not be prone to wobbling like the franklin mint version. Also, the die cast pieces are nicely produced and weighty too. The thing is still to shoddily made for the price though.

Amazing in the flesh

On the plus side, this chess set does look a great deal like the actual stage prop used on the original Star Trek down to the chess pieces. It serves very well as decoration for one's home. On the negative side, it is not designed in a good way to play Tri-Dimensional Chess. Perhaps it suffers from being too much like the actual prop, but the squares on the three main levels do not line up in a good way to play according to either its own included ruleset or other rulesets that exist that were inspired by Franz Joseph's _Star Fleet Technical Manual_. Unfortunately, the positioning of the three main boards relative to each other are not easily adjustable. Also, the smaller "attack boards" are wobbly. They are usable, but fail to be elegantly so. Nevertheless, with a little imagination the board is usable for playing chess. An additional criticism is that while the rules included are playable, they are not well explained. I had to go online to see how other similar rulesets were written in order to be certain that I understood Nobel Collection's ruleset. It would have helped if the makers had included another piece of paper with examples of play to get the idea across effectively. A move notation system to record one's games would also have been a good addition. For this reason, I can't give this set five stars, or even four stars. If all that you want is decoration, I'll give it four and a half stars. The only thing that keeps it from five stars are the wobbly smaller boards.

meravigliosa scacchiera di star trek per me che sono un appassionato è stato davvero un gioiello, il prodotto è fragile quindi fate attenzione e tenetelo al meglio

It is great, and what I thought was an very interesting chess set after I saw it on Star Trek.

Si eres fan de Star Trek esta es una pieza que si oh si debes de tener en tu colección

Super Qualität und sehr massiv. Auch im Gewicht.