A photo from Arlindo's collection showing Tal playing with the Latvian Set.
1960's Soviet Set
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how tall is this set? I love it. how do you find such great sets!? nice find.
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Candidate35 wrote:
how tall is this set? I love it. how do you find such great sets!? nice find.
Thanks, C. The king is 10 cm, or 4 inches. I find them on Ebay and Etsy.
Very nice. I like this soviet design as well, and I have two nearly identical ones. One was claimed by the seller to be from the 1980s, while the other one was claimed by another seller to date from the 1950s. There are no actual dates to be found anywhere on the actual boards and sets, so there's no way to actually be certain. However, the sets of this particular type of design that I have seen tend to be somewhat more worn then most other soviet chess sets that I have seen and they all have wooden rather than plastic top knights, which became pretty standard among soviet chess sets from the mid 1970s onward, all of which makes me strongly suspect that they mostly date from the 1950s and 1960s.
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JackieMatra wrote:
Very nice. I like this soviet design as well, and I have two nearly identical ones. One was claimed by the seller to be from the 1980s, while the other one was claimed by another seller to date from the 1950s. There are no actual dates to be found anywhere on the actual boards and sets, so there's no way to actually be certain. However, the sets of this particular type of design that I have seen tend to be somewhat more worn then most other soviet chess sets that I have seen and they all have wooden rather than plastic top knights, which became pretty standard among soviet chess sets from the mid 1970s onward, all of which makes me strongly suspect that they mostly date from the 1950s and 1960s.
Thanks, Jackie. I will take a picture of the stamp on this set when I get a chance. I have two other Latvian sets, one stamped from the fifties, and I'm not sure about the third.
Wonderful set Chuck, thanks for sharing. Are you going to get the collar repaired on the King? Its a beautiful set desreving the repair IMO. Also love the the Queen's crown
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goodknightmike wrote:
Wonderful set Chuck, thanks for sharing. Are you going to get the collar repaired on the Queen? Its a beautiful set desreving the repair IMO. Also love the the Queen's crown
Thanks, Mike! I intend to get the king's collar repaired. The queens' crowns are outstanding. The best of my three Latvian sets.
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Very nice. I am too young (31) to have seen one like this in person but it looks very cool. I wish chessbazaar or whoever else does chess set reproductions have made this set. I've bought a different design Soviet chess set from them and it's great. They since then added one more very faithfully reproduced set. But they still haven't done one of these sets that have a very wide base. Perhaps they would need larger pieces of wood that might be too costly?
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Candidate35 wrote:
Was the set $100+? Do you recall the seller name?
C35, this set was south of $100. Check out RetroRussia and AntiqueSoviet on Etsy.
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Drawgood wrote:
Very nice. I am too young (31) to have seen one like this in person but it looks very cool. I wish chessbazaar or whoever else does chess set reproductions have made this set. I've bought a different design Soviet chess set from them and it's great. They since then added one more very faithfully reproduced set. But they still haven't done one of these sets that have a very wide base. Perhaps they would need larger pieces of wood that might be too costly?
Draw, I've played on two ChessBazaar Soviet Reproductions. The first was a closer reproduction than the second, but both were very good playing sets. Better than the originals I own because they're better weighted. The Latvian sets are thin and elegant and wouldn't require any more wood. Likely less.
Here is a Soviet set from the sixties I recently acquired. It's in the style of what Arlindo Vieira has called the "Latvian Set" and a favorite of Tal's.