Lasquer wrote:
Fischer playing President Marcos,Philippines 1973. The set seems to be a typical (high quality) Filipino chess set.
Vey nice pic Lasquer, thanks for sharing!
Pictures of Bobby Fischer playing with different Sets, Please Post
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May 17, 2016
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goodknightmike wrote:
cgrau wrote:
Ronbo710 wrote:
Oops re-read your request. Here's one with wide collar bishops I haven't seen before ...
Ron, that's a Windsor set. Ubiquitous until displaced by plastic Lardys in the late sixties/early seventies.
Chuck, the Drueke Players Choice plastic sets replaced the Windsor Castle sets in the mid to late 1960s. If memory serves me, I think the Lardy plastic sets were from the the 1970s.
I remember getting my first plastic Lardy in 1970. When I took over the University of Wisconsin chess program in 1971, all our sets were plastic Lardys, and it's all I used in the tournaments I directed. I had played with the Windsors in Milwaukee in the mid-sixties. I never played in a tournament where the Players Choice pieces were used, though I picked up a set in the late sixties. Maybe it was otherwise outside the Upper Midwest.
Fischer playing Ulhman at the 1970 Siegen Olympiad with the infamous "chicken head" Knights. Set made by West German company Bohemia.
Beautiful set!
What is the technical name for the current baseline plastic set the USCF sells for tournaments?
Senior-Lazarus_Long wrote:
Senior, Nice vdeo, thanks for sharing
May 17, 2016
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goodknightmike wrote:
Fischer playing Ulhman at the 1970 Siegen Olympiad with the infamous "chicken head" Knights. Set made by West German company Bohemia.
On a fold-up travel board/case!
cgrau wrote:
goodknightmike wrote:
Fischer playing Ulhman at the 1970 Siegen Olympiad with the infamous "chicken head" Knights. Set made by West German company Bohemia.
On a fold-up travel board/case!
That's quite unusual Chuck, can you think of any other Olympiads where folding boards were used?
ipcress12 wrote:
Those pictures of the young Bobby kinda break my heart.
Me too. So gifted and intelligent, but a fragile wee soul.
May 17, 2016
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goodknightmike wrote:
cgrau wrote:
goodknightmike wrote:
Fischer playing Ulhman at the 1970 Siegen Olympiad with the infamous "chicken head" Knights. Set made by West German company Bohemia.
On a fold-up travel board/case!
That's quite unusual Chuck, can you think of any other Olympiads where folding boards were used?
Indeed it is. I can't think of another Olympiad, but I'm sure I've seen them in pictures of Soviet tournaments.
Bobby with his Travel Chess set:
May 17, 2016
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Lasquer wrote:
Fischer playing President Marcos,Philippines 1973. The set seems to be a typical (high quality) Filipino chess set.
Here's one of Bobby playing Imelda Marcos on one of those gorgeous Filipino sets. I believe they were playing for shoes...
All his life he has been afraid to look Jewish .Very sad indeed.
Bobby playing David Bronstein at the 1958 Portoroz tournament with what appears to be the 1950 Dubrovnik Olympiad set.
ipcress12 wrote:
Those pictures of the young Bobby kinda break my heart.
stuzzicadenti wrote:
Bobby watching kids play chess (but he's also holding a snake??!! and a little girl is about to touch the snake...)
Thanks for all the wonderful pics
May 18, 2016
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gerberk wrote:
All his life he has been afraid to look Jewish .Very sad indeed.
what the? How bout he just looks like your typical American kid and young adult
Fischer playing President Marcos,Philippines 1973. The set seems to be a typical (high quality) Filipino chess set.