I literally had to change my underwear after seeing post # 262!
Best Chess Set Design Ever?
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Oh you want Indian Rosewood? No big bang for your buck mister! What you want is Golden Rosewood, best bang for your buck for long time!
magictwanger wrote:
I literally had to change my underwear after seeing post # 262!
Why " I hope you are feeling better "
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May 10, 2021
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#247
I would say Lardy chess set is the best design ever. It just feels good. Not too big, not too small and not distracting.
May 21, 2021
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#249
Author/philosopher Albert Camus wrote in The Myth of Sisyphus that he was certain of only one philosophical truth, that a man sees one great vision as a child and spends the rest of his life trying to recapture it. To me, that means things like "What's the best chess set design?" is individual and depends on what great vision of chess one first saw when young.
May 22, 2021
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#250
@Impractical, that’s exactly how it was for me. I first went to a chess club as a 13 year old in the late 70s. I was the only child there and it was held in a function room above a hotel bar. Most of the blokes would smoke and drink as they played. I got my ass handed to me in the first few games I played, but I remember thinking how great the chess sets were. They were big, old and heavy, and Staunton style. I do not know what the manufacturers were, and they were mismatched, battle worn sets so wouldn’t be worth much money. But I think it’s the memory of those sets that sparked my current obsession with chess sets. I still look for big, old and heavy.
And now I am big, old and heavy!
And now I am big, old and heavy!
Exactly! I played with the seniors when I was a kid, that's how it got me start smoking! The smell of sweet tobacco's from pipes...num num num.
May 22, 2021
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#252
I'm expecting delivery of this set on Monday:
This set was actually my "second choice" at the time, as the one I really wanted was sold just before I was ready to purchase. Still, I'm very much looking forward to its arrival in just a few days! I really like knights with reins (both my first choice, and this set share this feature).
All that said, acquiring beautiful sets that inspire memorable games played with them is not such a bad chronic quest, is it?
Rosewood and Boxwood. King is 4.1", Base 1.9" Two extra queens.
Eyechess wrote:
And the fact is, sound67, you do not know or understand Chess sets well enough to be able to identify Chess set perfection or not.
You have come on this forum completely biased against any person or company offering a set at what you think is too expensive. I am sure you have never handled, let alone owned a high quality set. You only want the cheap stuff.
Noj is not the only company or person producing high quality Chess sets, you schmuck.
Carl of Official Staunton, Frank Camaratta who started and sold The House of Staunton, Chess Empire and Chopra are a few others.
I only own 6 Noj sets. And I own at least 36 others made in India. So what you Chess set expert wannabe?
If you didn’t figure it out I am tired and done with you and your low priced buddy, KnightsForkCafe, taking shots at me and others because we like high quality stuff. Enough is enough.
I declare war on you and him. You are both Chess set and equipment degenerates.
Be assured that I will no longer suffer you and him as the fools you are.
What a cringeworthy try hard. Hopefully you've grown up in the last year.
Dec 3, 2021
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#254
There's quite a bit of history here of which you may not be aware. Their interactions with @Eyechess often went far beyond mere banter and agree-to-disagree. Hopefully all of us have matured in the last year.
Dec 3, 2021
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#255
GrandPatzerDave wrote:
There's quite a bit of history here of which you may not be aware. Their interactions with @Eyechess often went far beyond mere banter and agree-to-disagree. Hopefully all of us have matured in the last year.
I haven't.
Dec 3, 2021
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#256
IpswichMatt wrote:
GrandPatzerDave wrote:
There's quite a bit of history here of which you may not be aware. Their interactions with @Eyechess often went far beyond mere banter and agree-to-disagree. Hopefully all of us have matured in the last year.
I haven't.
Hahaha, well, yeah. Neither have I but note the "Hopefully"... 
You both and the rest of you all have not matured, it is only I that have matured.
MCH818 wrote:
I'm still buying toys so I have not grown up one bit.
https://www.ebay.com/p/6035336891
To go with your Russian chess set LOL 
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I have spent time matching sets to boards. Most of the variety of what is called Rosewood has some red in the color. Sure, the Blood Rosewood and Bud Rosewood have more red, but even the original Rosewood pieces I own have a tinge of red in them.
Walnut and some of the other brown woods do not have any red at all.
I also have noticed when I put most any rosewood pieces on a Walnut board the dark wood colors do not match or complement very well. My wife and some Chess playing friends have also told me this.
So, I find the Rosewood pieces do better on a different shade of Rosewood board or another non-brown wood like Wenge. I have a couple boards with green dyed for the dark squares and Rosewood pieces do well on them also.
My Walnut boards do better with a different shade of Walnut piece or a different wood like Mopane. Brown stained pieces also can work quite well on Walnut squares.
Of course Black pieces work very well on all these boards as long as the squares are not too dark and black-like.
I have not had the pleasure of owning any rosewood sets. They look great though. I'll take your word that it does not look good on a walnut board and maybe avoid rosewood since I only have walnut maple boards. I'm glad you mentioned mopane. I am think about getting the Cooke Luxury in that wood. I loved the photos you posted of yours.
I know where you can get one, the best bang for your buck for a very long time to come. It's still not too late to live a little, you know you want it.