Is this style of pieces still available? If it is, where is it available?

Try looking at www.uschessfederation.com/sales, house of staunton and other online dealers inc www.chess.com

They look to be a plastic rendition of the Jaques Reykjavik set designed for the Fischer-Spassky world championship match after Fischer complained about the design of the original pieces.

I guess this set is too old now, because they only have wooden ones in stock.

The Fisher-Spassky knight has a more prominent mane and more pronounced ears. I think this might be a plastic Paladin set, the knight resembles the one on Paladin’s business card in "Have gun will travel."

Edit Nope, the Paladin knight has it's mouth open.

http://www.uscfsales.com/chess-pieces/plastic-chess-pieces/the-reykjavik-series-plastic-chessmen-3-75-king-1.html

I believe these are pretty close to what you're looking for.

It's not a Paladin set but a poor rendition of the Reykjavik set.

I have a set like that, and it's great.  It's very heavy, so it's probably triple weighted.

NimzoRoy, I think the correct URL to the USCF's site is http://www.uscfsales.org.

I checked out the USCF's website and I didn't see it.  If it's there, they didn't do a very good job of displaying it.  (A lot of their initial graphic photos are very small and I wasn't about to click on each and every one.)

This was a popular style chess set for many, many years.  A lot of my chess buddies and tournament buddies had a set like this.  I can't believe some chess site doesn't still carry it.

Ah, we're getting close.  This set is similar (notice the pawns) but the knights look a bit different:

http://www.hayneedle.com/product/tripleweightedplasticchesspieces.cfm

This site had them... but it appears they are currently out of stock:

http://www.onlinechesslessons.net/shop/american-chess-ultimate-pieces-triple-weighted/

You could e-mail them and ask them if they expect to receive additional sets in the near future.

EdCollins looks like you got an exact match, well done, fair play to ya : )

That is an abysmal rendition of a Reykjavik set. Look at the knight, it has a mane from the middle of its head to the bottom of where the horse part of the piece ends; an ear that you could feel by running your thumb over it; and has a mouth, nostrils, deep neck and jaw line, which gives it a prominent and healthy looking chest. Also, the Reykjavik rook has six gaps in its parapet not five. Even a low quality rendition should preserve this detail. The Reykjavik queen's crown is also rather thorny on a high quality wooden rendition. On the plastic set, the points do not extend over the ball in the middle.

With your power of observation I wouldn't go setting myself on fire because I thought I uncoded the devil's secret ritual for immortality. 

aggressivesociopath wrote:

That is an abysmal rendition of a Reykjavik set. Look at the knight, it has a mane from the middle of its head to the bottom of where the horse part of the piece ends; an ear that you could feel by running your thumb over it; and has a mouth, nostrils, deep neck and jaw line, which gives it a prominent and healthy looking chest. Also, the Reykjavik rook has six gaps in its parapet not five. Even a low quality rendition should preserve this detail. The Reykjavik queen's crown is also rather thorny on a high quality wooden rendition. On the plastic set, the points do not extend over the ball in the middle.

With your power of observation I wouldn't go setting myself on fire because I thought I uncoded the devil's secret ritual for immortality. 

Are you saying that the set depicted in your photograph is a Reykjavik set? And there's no need for a personal attack.

http://www.houseofstaunton.com/chess-pieces/luxury-wooden-chess-pieces/the-spassky-fischer-commemorative-chess-set.html

Your powers of observation were not that sharp in the Paladin comparison either.

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/what-drueke-set-am-i-looking-for?page=5

Best wishes, have a nice day.

What could be possible more beautiful than wood tripple weight Yugoslavija set ?

Oddly enough that does not actually invalidate anything I said about the knight.

By all means feel free to travel in silence by a long and circuitous route, to brave the arrows of misfortune and fear neither nose nor fire, to play the greatest of all games and win, foregoing no expense to mock the vicissitudes of fate and to gain at the last the key that will unlock the Ninth Gate and set your self on fire. I don't really care.

Brrrp! And the ramastan modulates the hexagogen on the pater noster yurrbummsootrawindaenat : )

The best place for these is direct from American Chess Equipment.  It's their design.

http://www.amchesseq.com/

http://www.amchesseq.com/21ulsettwe35.html

I believe the set is called Ultimate Chess Set. The chess house has it backordered and St Louis Chess Club used to carry it.

http://www.chesshouse.com/3_5_8_Ultimate_Chess_Pieces_p/e119.htm

Here is a set on ebay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-ULTIMATE-ACE-2100-Chess-Set-Tournament-Double-Weighted-Plastic-3-3-4-King-/130933434462?pt=Games_US&hash=item1e7c3da85e

Good work you guys.

Yes, EdCollins got an exact match.