Intricately Carved Chess Set in Museum

I wouldn't want to play with this set - the pieces are so elaborate that I can hardly tell what some of them are. In fact, it looks to me as though the curator who set up the opening position had trouble telling the knights from the bishops.

Still, it is an amazing piece of art. A friend went to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, saw this, and took photos for me to see. So, I know nothing about who made it or how old it is.

Chess set - Rijksmuseum

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/BK-NM-7402

Thanks! I see that the museum doesn't know who made it, either.

Aren't those rooks kind of perverse? And it really is hard, at a quick glance, to tell the difference between the knights and the bishops. You have to look at their headgear and other details. If you look at the pics I posted, you can see that they are set up in Ruy Lopez, but I swear that's a knight where the white bishop should be.

Then again...on third glance, I think that might be a bishop, after all.

Nice set to put on a table as decoration.
But I'll take the 2$ plastic kiddie set to play with

We used to take the plastic Staunton sets, in our club, and make them nice, heavy, and tournament ready as follows: fill the hollow piece with modeling clay, then glue a neat circle of felt to the bottom. Voila!

Of course, this worked back then. In this modern age of electronic boards that detect the pieces, this wouldn't work.

It is ornate. It is an artwork.

But it is not a chess set. There is an art to making a chess set. It's like abridging a book for audio cassette. That is an art in itself.

This is how you make chess set.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/luxury-chess-set-1?page=3#comment-92580471

I've seen the post (you linked to) before. Please don't troll. This is just for people to look at. Of course it's art.

Why am I trolling?

Can you explain to me?

The person who created this is obviously a talented artist. But he missed a point. To make it a playable chess set.

Then I showed an example of how another talented artist achieved that. Make an impressively real chess set that is also simple and playable as a toy.

Can you explain to me why I am "trolling"?

I truly don't understand.

Maybe it is you who don't understand.

As it said, there is another step of art.

Adapting it to a playable chess set is another art in itself.

Which this artist failed to do.

And I show where another artist succeeded in that second art of adaptation.

Why am I the troll?

Explain.

Would you want to play with this set?

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/luxury-chess-set-1?page=3#comment-92580471

And let's judge aesthetic.

Which set is more beautiful?

Please stop trolling. My very first sentence says I would not want to play with this set. Civilized behavior includes reading before you post.

You have not explained why I am the troll to me, to other chess players here, or to yourself.

Please start explaining.

And can you answer a simple question. Yes or no.

Would you want to play with this set?

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/luxury-chess-set-1?page=3#comment-92580471

You are trolling.

And I will explain why.

There are a million ornate chess sets that are impractical as real playable toys.

Why don't we make a topic,

"Ornate chess sets that sucked as a toy."

1. I have not seen a chess set more beautiful than this.

2. And as practical as a toy than this.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/luxury-chess-set-1?page=3#comment-92580471

Everything else sucks in compassion. Everything else is a troll.

Speak of the devil. Here they are.

Question.

Which chess set in the video is

1. More beautiful

2. More practical

than this.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/luxury-chess-set-1?page=3#comment-92580471

Answer: None of them!

OMG, stop badgering 156iris156.

He said that he wouldn't want to play with the set in his post, and he is in no way obligated to answer your questions about an entirely different set.

@danielaKay

Pretend I don't exist.

Does @156iris156 badger himself when he asks himself if he wants to play with a chess set he sees?

Again, pretend I don't exist.

And if he came across this set.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/luxury-chess-set-1?page=3#comment-92580471

And he asks himself, "Do I want to play with this set?"

Does he badger himself when he asks himself, "Do I want to play with this set?"

What is it I ask that he wouldn't ask himself?

Do I badger @156iris156 when I say, "Look at this set."?

Does @156iris156 badger us when say, "Look at this set"?

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/intricately-carved-chess-set-in-museum?page=1#comment-92655839

Here is a lesson about chess, and real war.

On the chess set, both sides are identical. They are just mirror images of each other.

That is what real war is.

One side thinks he's the good guy and the other guy is the bad guy. While not knowing that the other guy thinks the same thing. That he is the good guy and you are the bad guy.

So why am I the bad guy?

In my eyes, you guys are the bad guys.

Here's my eyes.

@156iris156 showed us something

1. Too ornate

2. Too impractical.

I showed something

1. More beautiful

2. More practical

And I am the troll?

I am the badger?

That's my eyes. That's how I see you.