The only problem with this chess set is the badly-made knights which really puts off people.
23th Chess Olympiad set :::::: ON SALE :::::
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^^^ You have a set do you? Thought not.
Love sets with this much history.
SpanishStallion wrote:
The only problem with this chess set is the badly-made knights which really puts off people.
the style and craftsmanship of set is representative and change in all the countries and times. this knight have and 45° axis for stability, the and measured radial acoord to the board. i dont think "badly-made knights" are correct. regards ....
jjupiter6 wrote:
^^^ You have a set do you? Thought not.
Hi, still available. if you need more information i bring my facebook trought imbox. regards.
The Argentine chess set is a good production but the finial of the king is very delicate and prone to breakage in play.
gina880 wrote:
The Argentine chess set is a good production but the finial of the king is very delicate and prone to breakage in play.
Sam Sevian is not amused.
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The argentinian Olympic chess pieces (and tables) were made especially for that tournament held in 25th October - 12th November 1978, they were used also in another tournaments like the Clarín International Tournaments.
Unlike what they did after the Olympiad of Havana 66, where the organizers gave the sets as a gift to the players, in Argentina (at that time under military rule) the sets and tables were given to chess clubs of all over the country (The Buenos Aires’ big chess clubs got the most sets, they supported the organization of international tournaments, like the Clarìn ones). So these sets never were sold in stores: they were used by the clubs members and just sometimes they were given as prizes in tournaments organized by those clubs, or they were sold to club members or collectors in order to buy new equipment for the clubs or to pay their bills. Some clubs still have some of these old sets (some incompletes or in bad shape), and their members can play with them on their competitions.
- there's only exist 200 -
On this video argentinian ches collector Julio Refay and GM Ariel Sorín talk a little about the argentinian olympic chess pieces.(spanish)
https://youtu.be/ljllJMPPmzw
The 23th Chess Olympiad came back to South America after 39 years. Unfortunately no participant from 1939 appeared in the line-ups although bigger gaps have been seen in the history of the Olympiads. We have seen 66 nations, among them team USA, the titleholders, together with group of hawkish youngsters from Western European teams and full set of Communist nations, including USSR of course. The Soviets were lacking Karpov and Tal this time having put three newcomers into the squad. It was the second time when the Olympiad was running according to the rules of Swiss system, but the first time when both West and East countries joined. The 4-year break made it hard to predict who is going to reach the medal zone, apart from the Soviets who, as usual, were big favourites for Gold. Hungary lead by Portisch, Ribli and Sax looked very solid as well as Yugoslavia with Gligorić and Ljubojević, The American squad was based on their Haifa golden team. Argentina, the host nation, once again were deprived of their best players (Najdorf, Panno, Quinteros and more) who missed the Argentinian Championship, the major and only Olympic team qualifier.
The turn of October and November means the height of spring at the Southern hemisphere. This is why Argentinian heats were quite hard to tolerate for the Europeans and that was sort of handicap for them. The games of the Olympiad were played inside tight passageways of the famous "River Plate" football stadium, a structure that hosted the football World Championship final some six months earlier (it was Argentina who took the Gold beating 3-1 Holland after extra-time). According to FIDE General Assembly settings the number of rounds was extended to 14, since the number of participating countries exceeded 50. Unlike Haifa Buchholz became the major tie-break at a cost of match points.
The fully deserved success of Hungarian team was achieved thanks to their top 3, namely Portisch, Ribli and Sax. Portisch contributed most and scored >70% despite of two losses. The reconstructed Soviet team missed a clear leader, Polugaevsky achieved most valuable result perhaps. The bronze for USA, exactly what they were supposed to get, is primarily owed to Tarjan who won gold individual medal for his excellent 9½/11. Superb youngster Kuligowski boosted performance of Polish team and Kortschnoj produced stunning performance for his new homeland Switzerland. Bordonada of Philippines and Turner of British Virgin Islands (best individual percentage performance) did remarkably well also. The 1978 Buenos Aires Olympiad was one of those that did not bring much spectacular games and events, apart from Hungary celebrating their first Olympic gold since 1928.
https://youtu.be/TDZxZ7upTzY
Various games in progress from the chess olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Players are, Russian Boris Spassky, Russian defector Viktor Korchnoi, Adam Kuligowski from Poland, America's William Lombardy, Austria's Karl Robatsch, America's Robert Byrne, UK's Tony Miles, Germany's Robert Hubner and Poland's Krzysztof Pytel all feature.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDZxZ7upTzY
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