The Queen is the Spinosaurus, which may come as a bit of a surprise due to that fight against the T-Rex in Jurassic Park 3 (spoiler: the T-Rex lost that fight), but hey, maybe they’ve settled their differences after all these years.
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The king is the Tyrannosaurus Rex, as to be expected because, I mean, it’s the T-Rex, the dinosaur that scared the shit out of us when we saw Jurassic Park as children (or maybe you thought the T-Rex was cool, I can’t tell you how to live your life). As the description of the game says, the pieces are nicely detailed, looking like a miniature replica of the dinosaurs from the series. The game itself does not come with instructions on how to actually play chess (bless my patient wife for talking me through it), but each dinosaur is labeled to let you know which chess piece it represents. I definitely roared more than once while playing this. The Dilophosaurs, for example, is in its iconic “screeching at Nedry” pose. What I like about the pieces is that each of the dinosaurs is in a dynamic pose as if they really are getting ready for a fight. Also, if I’m gonna play Jurassic Park chess, imma be a dinosaur. This is probably the safest way to explore the park, that’s for sure.
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Complete with 32 finely sculpted game pieces and full graphic chess board, this chess set will transport you right into the island where dinosaurs roam the earth! Will you come out on top as you battle your opponent among these predators?
Travel to Jurassic Park where dinosaurs dominate this chess match. Yes, I did roar at least once while playing. The Jurassic Park set, however, is a lot of fun, with dinosaur-themed pieces that create an urge to roar with every move. The Noble Collection is full of chess sets and collectibles from a number of different franchises-some of which will make you feel like you need to put them in a fancy sitting room where classical music plays in the background. Luckily, the folks over at The Noble Collection happened to have the perfect chess set for me.
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In this weaponized sense everyone is in the history business, and it is only in the relative calm of graduate programs, annual meetings, journal submissions, and the recruitment of professional historians that the soothing hum of sources, chronologies, periods, and methods can still be heard.As I continued to traverse through this thing called life something occurred to me: I never learned how to play chess. Absent a serious space for reflection, debate, and deliberation in or on the actually existing present, it becomes easy to claim that my history is bigger than yours, or more ethically relevant, or more marginalized. It is no wonder that the hills are alive with the sound of presentism. Debates about Covid-19, affirmative (in)action, antisemitism, sexual violence, student debt, Title IX, Confederate monuments, racist donors, resigning presidents, and rogue trustees combine to occlude the daylight of classes, books, and learning. It is a useful conversation to have now, at a moment when the public sphere, and even more so the university’s space within it, seems to consist more of mines than of fields. The recent debate over “presentism” among historians, especially those based in the United States, has generated both heat and light. Arjun Appadurai in The Chronicle of Higher Education:
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