DOCTOR WHO Chess Set

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Please note all furniture is sold as a work of art, not for functional use in a domestic setting. Upholstered items which do not comply with fire regulations will be sold for their structural and artistic value only, not for household use in their current state. Fire Safety Regulations do not apply to furniture intended for export and furniture manufactured prior to 1950. WE DO NOT OFFER POSTAGE ON THIS SALE - ALL BUYERS WILL RECEIVE A DELIVERY QUOTE FROM AUCTION LOGISTICS. The Doctor, a Time Lord who left his planet Gallifrey to explore the farthest reaches of the universe. K9, the electronic dog with a computerized brain. Leela, the Doctor’s assistant – a fearless warrior who would face the most formidable danger without a moment’s hesitation. The Tardis, the famous police call box used by the Doctor as his time machine. In the 52nd century, a variant of chess called live chess was favoured. Each piece had an electrical current; each time a piece was moved, the current became stronger. ( TV: The Wedding of River Song)

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The Eleventh Doctor once played Bobby Fischer and refused to do so again because it went "very wrong." He also had a habit of playing himself and was disappointed because every time he played chess against himself he lost. ( PROSE: Dark Horizons) The Eleventh Doctor played a game against a Cyber-Planner (calling himself Mr Clever) that had attempted to possess him, with the prize being total control over the Doctor's mind. However, the game was inconclusive as the Doctor used his turn in control to destroy the Cyber-Planner with a hand pulse. ( TV: Nightmare in Silver) The Eleventh Doctor also cornered Gantok in a game of live chess, though he conceded when the man promised to help him in exchange for the win. ( TV: The Wedding of River Song) The Sixth Doctor often played chess with Peri Brown after she rejoined him, although she did not enjoy it very much. They were in the middle of a game when Peri decided that she wanted to be returned to Baltimore in the mid- 1990s. ( AUDIO: Conflict Theory) Cotton and Stubbs use pipes instead of normal pieces in a game aboard Skybase One. ( TV: The Mutants) Humphrey, a fictional character created by Annette Billingsley, was taught chess by his grandfather and used his knowledge to beat a minor villain in one of Billingsley's The Troubleseekers novels. When a Ch'otterai brought The Troubleseekers fictional world to life, the Tenth Doctor encountered the robber and agreed to his challenge of a game of chess. However, the Doctor said it was inevitable that he would win because he had never lost a game of chess except to a metal dog which did not count, so he refused to play the game and claimed victory anyway. ( PROSE: The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage)

Doctor Who chess

Haresh Chandra taught Luke Smith how to play chess and was subsequently beaten by him six times in a row. ( TV: The Eternity Trap) Doctor Who” is the accepted moniker of an immortal, time-traveling alien who, oddly enough, appears quite human. A trap in the Tomb of Rassilon resembled a chess board. Nothing happened until a visitor reached the fifth row; then the board became a giant death trap. ( TV: The Five Doctors) IMPORTANT: WE ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED FOR VIEWING AND NO PUBLIC ARE ALLOWED IN TO THE BUILDING ON SALE DAY. In the 2010s, Coal Hill School included a big floor chessboard for its pupils. ( TV: The Caretaker)

Doctor Who Chess Set With Series 5 Characters

Each character in this superb set is expertly recreated in solid English pewter. The detail in each sculpture is magnificent. Each piece is an object of art in its own right. This is truly a chess set to enjoy – both as a game and as a work of art. Darius Pike (with the help of K9 Mark 2) played chess against Starkey (aided by Jorjie Turner). Starkey beat him. The particular chessboard on which they were playing had animals as the chess pieces. ( TV: The Fall of the House of Gryffen) Starkey later lost to K9. ( TV: The Cambridge Spy) When being warned that he had only four minutes left to live, the Eighth Doctor retorted by asking "anyone for chess?" ( TV: The Night of the Doctor) Group Captain Ian Gilmore was not fond of chess, claiming that "wars are fought on battlefields, not chessboards." ( AUDIO: Peshka)RIGHT TO ADMISSION| Hansons reserves the right to refuse admission to any of its auctions without giving a reason. AFTER SALE OFFERS| Where an item remains unsold on auction day, should a reasonable offer be made during the week following the sale, Hansons reserve the right, in their position as agents, to accept on the vendors behalf. All such sales incur the same charges as if the Lot had been sold at Auction. When they were captured by the Master, Jo Grant and the Third Doctor played draughts against each other. Jo won and took all the Doctor's remaining pieces. The Doctor complained that the trouble with this game was that it was too simple. Furthermore he mentioned that he was more used to playing three dimensional chess. ( TV: The Mind of Evil) The Master, a renegade Time Lord who would stop at nothing to reach his goal – the total domination of time and space. The Daleks, created by Davros in the laboratories of Skaro, became the most feared of the Doctor’s enemies. The Cybermen, metal robots with nothing left of their original humanoid form but their evil minds. At least one headteacher of Coal Hill, Francis Armitage, had a chessboard in his office. ( TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo)