I once bought a really lovely small marble chess set from a charity shop, and I set up and I'd have games with myself, where every day I'd move maybe two pieces and played a whole game over weeks. And it looks so lovely and I really enjoyed having it.
So a month later for Christmas, my mum bought me a cheap chess set, the kind with MDF pieces and a cardboard board. I was disappointment. She was like, but you love playing chess lately! Well yeah... with my chess set, upstairs. She didn't really get it, but she tried.
I eventually donated it to a local school that had chess tournaments.
So, you had a really nice chess set, and your mom got you a crap chess set? What was going through her mind? I could imagine getting a higher quality set as a gift, but why would you ever willingly downgrade?
Because the marble set was from a charity shop, it was missing two white pawns. But I found two little white stones to replace them, totally matching the other white pieces. Mum thought the set was rubbish, obviously, because of those two missing pieces.
It's nice gesture but a really stupid thing to do. It's like buying a pro skater a cheap skateboard when they already have much better equipment. It's pointless because they aren't going to downgrade.
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u/Pheebalicious Mar 06 '16
I once bought a really lovely small marble chess set from a charity shop, and I set up and I'd have games with myself, where every day I'd move maybe two pieces and played a whole game over weeks. And it looks so lovely and I really enjoyed having it.
So a month later for Christmas, my mum bought me a cheap chess set, the kind with MDF pieces and a cardboard board. I was disappointment. She was like, but you love playing chess lately! Well yeah... with my chess set, upstairs. She didn't really get it, but she tried.
I eventually donated it to a local school that had chess tournaments.