CHESS SET IDENTIFICATION

Hello everybody,

Does somebody knows the name of the chess set used by Vladek Sheybal in this movie: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdCo8UVxeXU

looks like a run of the mill club-size Lardy set.

Looks like it to me also. The Kings look to be 4 1/2 to 5 inches to me unless its an illusion.

Looked like somebody was cheating to me !

well,not sure about the set but the game was a re-enactment of Boris Spassky's victory over David Bronstein in 1960.a brilliant King's Gambit game.

Starting a research in google writing: 3 3/4 inch Staunton chess set. Some similar sets appears in graphics. But the designation is always staunton tournament chess set. The commercial name of the set is still not found so far.

something like that:

As previously mentioned - LARDY. They have been out of business for many years now, unfortunately...

http://www.chess-museum.com/lardy.html

Thanks Frank, the first part of the problem is solved. 

Continuing the analyse of our video, here comes the second part of this forum; quite a tricky question: Where could be found the original chess set used by the great actor Vladek Sheybal in the James Bond Movie "From Russia With Love" ?

Chess lovers and James Bond fans are both invited to participate in this forum :-)

my friend bill wall did an article about this scene back in halloween of 2009 here at chess .com

http://www.chess.com/blog/billwall/off-the-wall-chess---from-russia-with-love

here is a youtube-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZWDxnXJI-s

still searching for Where could be found the original chess set, i wonder if

Vladek has it? so much too look at on the web

Thanks Mevenstein, this article is very interesting indeed.

Maybe some antique chess sets specialist can help ? Any information about the selling of the chess set used in this famous movie ? I suppose such an accessory worth an auction at christie's at least!

i make sure that all of you die ok ill bomb your homes your office im fucking killing ,,,chess.com all of you

you fucking filth, all die

Another SMERSH agent i think.

I think you overrate the importance of the set. It was just a prop, not even used by Sean Connery. Back when the movie was made, there was not such a trade in movie items, so it likely went straight back into storage and eventually probably got thrown away or sold off by the prop house. Even if one were to see a set that was claimed to be the one from the movie, how would it ever be proved?

Hi everybody, here's something i found while sneaking around in the internet in search of comments about our ches set: http://www.chessbazaar.com/vintage-french-lardy-exclusive-chess-pieces-in-ebonized-boxwood-boxwood-3-25-king.html

Any comments, pals?