Whether just starting or experienced, these insights

will help you find the ideal chess gift for those you love.

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Starting young players

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Any age – starting out or returning to the game

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Electronic chess: someone to play and a way to train

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Heirloom Collection for lasting memories

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A peek into Chess House

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Personalize a gift for recognition

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On the go: travel chess

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Special occasions and decorative sets

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The Art of chess: unique designs

Age 5 is ideal to start teaching a child chess.

The first chess set for your home

This chess set is recommended for every child ages 5-12.

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Solid, large pieces help learning

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Same pieces used in schools, clubs, and tournaments

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Easy piece replacements from Chess House if ever lost

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Many color choices, yet green is recommended because it is brain friendly for concentration

Build a good foundation with the ideal training tools.

Ideal for kids and adults, this DVD introduces chess fundamentals in a clear, accurate, and fun way.

The presentation is packed with tips and concepts so most viewers watch several times.

Elliott is easy to understand and qualified to teach the game.

He is a National Chess Master who relates well to children, and his curriculum has reached over 25,000 students so far.  View this DVD in store

Spark a child’s imagination with a book.

Beautiful hardcover intro to chess with illustrations for a child’s imagination. View

Chess for Children’s companion volume activity book in same beautiful hardcover and gloss pages with illustrations. View

A classic, the best way to beat a stronger opponent, especially Dad. Cleverly forcing checkmate with delightfully instructive positions from real games. View

Starting out or returning to the game

Classic Wood Chess Set

To test the waters with minimal investment, a set like this Classic Wood Chess Set is economical and full size at 19″ square.

Years later, a child will remember the set when they first started playing the game with you. View in store.

For a bright, enthusiastic youngster, the Scout Chess Set is a youthful design with well-made, smooth-finish wood chessmen that glide across the board thanks to billiard felt bases. It is perfect for chess at home with mom, dad, and grandparents. View Scout set in store

You’ll receive a complimentary pair of these fine white drawstring pouches with nearly any purchase of wooden chess sets or pieces.

Before Chess House, when the young Neff brother’s started selling chess sets to friends at local events, their mom sewed white bags for the chessmen.

Reminiscent, these White bags have been re-introduced in memory of those early days.

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Electronic Chess: someone to play and a way to train

Surprise gift for a 8 year old grandson who is a tournament chess player. He just loves it. Couldn’t have thought of a better gift. Recommend it to any serious chess player.

— TR in New York

This is Chess Genius Pro, the latest model computer that will play against you. And he is powerful.

If you don’t have someone to play chess with, Genius will be there whenever you like. He doesn’t talk… or complain if you take back moves.

Genius can play very strong or you can turn level settings to easy or anywhere in between.

Press the squares to input the moves and watch Genius moves in the display.

Takeback any time, get hints, even setup a position of your liking and play from there.

Power with batteries or optional AC adapter. Saves your game whenever it is turned off.

Best of all, playing style of this 2016 model is more natural and humanesque than models of past decades.

Chess players from beginner to expert will be thrilled with the capabilities and ability to play chess any time.

Players who are improving can practice new openings or strategies they have studied.

View Genius PRO in store and expect delight.

Lasting memories are made with

Heirloom Collection and JLP Artist Designs

World Champion Magnus Carlsen has played on this exact model chessboard in three USA events.

The craftsmanship on American made game board is hard to surpass. For those who recognize excellence in wood working, it is a real treat.

Here it is paired with Championship pieces, the traditional European pattern chessmen used at every major International chess event in the last 15 years.

View this Heirloom Collection Championship Set

The STACK by Raphael is an American made premium wood chess set and art form with embedded earth magnets and minimalist style.

It stacks and wraps in a cozy suede.

View this STACK with Rosewood Pieces and other options

Truly unique, the JLP live edge board is an exquisite chess playing field surrounded by natural walnut edge, finished with multiple clear coats that show off the wood grain.

Remarkable variation exists from board to board and each one is photographed at Chess House. See Live Edge Hardwood Boards available.

A peek into Chess House

Small choices can lead to significant outcomes.

When a dad introduced his young family to chess he surely had little idea the impact his choice would have.

In the early 90’s, the Neff brothers loved the challenge of learning and competing with the game and found a small mail-order company, “Chess House”, to supply learning materials and chess sets for themselves and friends.

With their new chess hobby, turned avid pursuit, the teen brothers scraped together some money to buy Chess House, trailer the assets from Kansas City to Lynden, WA and enjoy direct access to great chess resources while helping others find theirs too.

After printing thousands of catalogs year after year, often stapling and mailing them from their home, the hobby business turned into webstore in 1996 when ChessHouse.com began – now 20 years online.

Some things the Neff brothers learned became life commitments.

1. Serve relentlessly and take care of people like family. It doesn’t matter who, treat people with kindness and give them your best. In particular, respect your elders, like Don, the exemplary gentleman and former owner of Chess House. He was fun, friendly, and ridiculously helpful.

2. Think generationally, plan ahead, pass along values, and make time with those you love. Chess is perfect for encouraging all of these. The Neff brothers have their own families now with young kids and are teaching them the same game their dad shared with them 30 years earlier.

3. Have great products and deliver with excellence. Over the years, this product line has become a unique refined selection along with many exclusive offerings that customers say are pretty awesome. It’s what we love to do and it’s an ongoing journey to be great at this. You the customer get to judge how we’re doing.

Thank you for enjoying Chess House today! We look forward to serving you and making a difference in your life!

Raphael Neff
Owner, Co-Founder (and 3rd of 4 Neff brothers)
Chess House

For special recognition, not made in a mold.

To give recognition in timeless fashion, premium JLP hardwood chessboards are ready to receive a message of your choice. A maple block is engraved and inset in the walnut maple hardwood chessboard.

The World #9 player Super GM Wesley So recently received a JLP hardwood gift from his family.

Travel

When you are on the go, weight, size, and stowability matter.

A set like the 12″ one above has strong magnets to keep the pieces in place and an elegance to display anywhere.

View this set or all travel sets.

For special occasions and casual games

The Ambassador Chess Set shown above is perfect for fireside games with your spouse or with a young player in the family.

A decorative chess set is for non-comformists who like the beauty of chess expressed visually, free of rigid standards often imposed on set design.

View this set or more Decorative sets.

The Art of Chess

Australian Diaxi Modern Chess Set

A Chess House exclusive, Moroccan leather bound Diaxi chess board folds with 90 degree rotating lock. Modern brass pieces are outlined with red accent. Square of black graphite pattern overlay an aluminum composite frame. One of the most unique chess boards for a high contrast or minimalist decor.

16 1/2″ square with 3 3/8″ pieces and box. Patended Diaxi hinge.

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Large Metal Renaissance Set

Large Metal Renaissance Set

Made in Florence, Italy and extraordinary in all respects, this Renaissance chess set portrays an era between the middle ages and modern history, notably the 12th to 17th centuries. Beautiful, detailed chessmen depict the prowess of maturing European monarchies. Combined with a smooth, gloss finish, Grey briar chessboard, the chess set is well suited to any sophisticated decor.

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