I read the "original" in the Chess Collector Magazine before (it was a great issue, since we were both featured!). Excellent article, very well researched, as usual! Kudos, Chuck!
Icons of the Soviet Chess Board: Botvinnik-Flohr II Chess Pieces
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Jan 18, 2022
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Great stuff, Chuck, as always! It is my favorite Soviet chess piece design!
Jan 18, 2022
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EfimLG47 wrote:
I read the "original" in the Chess Collector Magazine before (it was a great issue, since we were both featured!). Excellent article, very well researched, as usual! Kudos, Chuck!
Many thanks Holger. Your article there on German chess makers is outstanding and every collector should read it.
Jan 18, 2022
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olegershov wrote:
Great stuff, Chuck, as always! It is my favorite Soviet chess piece design!
Many thanks!
Jan 18, 2022
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Wonderful post and article once again! Because of all the information and photos you have been so kindly sharing, I am now also waiting for my first Soviet chess set :D (I decided to start with BFII set)
ramip wrote:
Wonderful post and article once again! Because of all the information and photos you have been so kindly sharing, I am now also waiting for my first Soviet chess set :D (I decided to start with BFII set)
I hope you find a good one.
Jan 19, 2022
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Thank you…I hope it will be as nice as I think it will be 
I will be posting photos here for sure!
Jan 19, 2022
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ramip wrote:
Wonderful post and article once again! Because of all the information and photos you have been so kindly sharing, I am now also waiting for my first Soviet chess set :D (I decided to start with BFII set)
Thanks! Good choice!
Perhaps the most iconic Soviet chess pieces of all are what we have come to call Botvinnik-Flohr II pieces, BFII for short. In evolving variations, they were used at the highest levels of Soviet chess from the 1930s to the 1960s, including the 1934 Leningrad Masters Tournament, the 1935 Second Moscow International Tournament, the 1936 Third Moscow International Tournament, multiple Soviet Championships, and the 1956 Moscow Olympiad. World Champions Lasker, Capablanca, Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, and Fischer all played with pieces of this style.
For decades, BFII chess pieces served as soldiers in the front lines of the Soviet state’s program of Political Chess first pioneered by Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky in the 1920s and firmly established by Nikolai Krylenko in the thirties...
Read more about these magnificent chess pieces and their relation to the Soviet program of Political Chess at SovietChessSets.com.