Post Your Chess Sets

@developingdave - I'm very much a traditionalist and choose wood over anything else for myself, and always will. But I have to say, these are striking and look really good. The plain dark squares nicely balance the "busier" look of the light ones. Very nice. FWIW, you've won over a long-term skeptic of "non-traditional" materials with these boards. To look at, anyway.

Except the pink one. Too girly for this fragile male ego...  

Just think of it as the spilled blood of your opponent and you'll be fine!  

I do like the boards but I'm more of a matte/satin guy than a gloss guy - the reflection of an up-nostril view of my opponent doesn't appeal, for some reason...  

That being said,you must be really glad you never played Jimmy Durante.

My original Chavet B210

Looks like armies on the march ...MCH

Btw,nice board off to the side.

Rechapados Ferrer Walnut 50mm + Jacques Staunton n.5 (Hot games)

That's some gorgeous wood...I'm sure you put it to good use.

That's look like Star Trek chess!

Thanks to everyone for posting your sets. I’ve really enjoyed looking through this thread, so many great pieces and boards!

Here’s the first set I ever got, which I picked up in the Philippines in the late 80s/early 90s:

And here’s the second set I have. Picked this up when I got back into chess earlier this year. HoS Sussex.

Hey @BrothertheCloud - lovely sets, thanks for posting. I love that you purchased your Phillipines set when you were there many years ago. I was able to buy one via Holger Langer in Germany recently and I love it’s rugged simplicity. 👍

And here’s my last set. It’s the HoS Teramo, but I’m a sucker for figured wood so got it in Zebrano. Needs a bigger board but I don’t mind the pieces being a bit cosy.

Cheers! And yeah, I saw Holder’s posts where he was selling the NOS Philippines sets, I was almost tempted to get another since my set is a bit smaller  

Your set looks great!, and completely agree they are a lovely daily player. Mine have taken a battering over the past 30-odd years and still enjoy using them.

Very nice Brother C. I've always loved the bishops on the Sussex set. Angled miters are so much more accurate to the real thing than all theses rounded ones we see today. Thanks for sharing!

@BrothertheCloud - not so keen on the zebrano, striking though it is, but oh, those knights! They float my boat for sure! Lovely. 

Thanks Michael! And yeah, the angled mitre was one of the reasons I got this set as you don't see as many of this style around.

Thanks, and yeah, love these knights. The head position, the ears pointing forward, the teeth, and the mane style differing from left to right was a nice touch.

Bought this at auction the other day. It's a British Chess Company, 72 mm Kings. If anyone can tell me anything more about it that would be helpful, since I'm going to stick it on eBay shortly

@IpswichMatt, this is a beautiful set you have there, probably late 1890s. It is a Staunton set, but - slightly unusual - with Cavalier knights. Jon Crumiller has a similar set in his collection, see here. Jon's set is mentioned in Mick Deasey / Guy Lyons, "The British Chess Company - Stroud and London", p. 18, Fig. 21a.