A Wonderful looking chess set!
Official FIDE Chess Set
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mprowicz wrote:
A Wonderful looking chess set!
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Wolfheart32 wrote:
mprowicz wrote:
A Wonderful looking chess set!
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@Wolfheart32 - You are a Green Day fan yank?
Dec 6, 2023
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#125
the queen's crown and the king's cross are very fragile and break very easily
loubalch wrote:
I hate to say it, but this set is starting to grow on me. I like the clean lines and proportions of all of the pieces, save the knight, which looks great full face, but looks like it's ready for the glue factory in profile. I also wish the mfg. would offer it in sheesham.
But stranger than the scrawny knight, is the fact that the proportions of the FIDE Championship chess set are NOT within FIDE's own published equipment standards +/-10% (2015 edition).
As you can see by the design drawing and table below, the bishop, knight, rook and pawn are between 16-19% taller than the spec calls for.
Wouldn't it make sense to design a championship chess set that's within your own specs? Otherwise, why not change to specs to fit the set?
The table below compares the FIDE spec with the actual dimensions of the FIDE Championship Chess Set.
I made a 3D printable version inspired by post #3. https://grabcad.com/library/3d-print-chess-set-1
Jan 18, 2025
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#127
Jaques chess pieces designed along the lines of their original and beautiful 1849 offering are still the gold standard. I collect Jaques of London sets, and from 1949 to 1940 when their London factory was destroyed by German bombs. The early Jaques sets are beautiful, and their Queen was much shorter than the King (actually just slightly taller than the bishops). This is the design that defined the Staunton set. Why not stay as close as possible to the original?