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@ungewichtet thanks for clearing that up. I like your kiddo knights!

I have an interesting one for you. Ever seen a set like this? The seller couldn’t tell me what material they are made of. Maybe some sort of composite material? Picture is by Bogomaster on Ebay

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/spanish-chess-sets-piezas-ajedrez-espantildeol

BurnAmos- Arlindo Vieira has treated these in his first of seven parts he made og spanish chess pieces.

Taken from there.

@Ungewichtet Thanks, I did read those threads, and indeed the sets certainly are similar. But did you notice the extra detail in the knights in my picture compared to this one, which comes from Arlindo’s thread as well? I’ll report with more pics when I receive it.

Edit: extra picture showcasing the knights better

Me too!

Those knights are elegant and refined.

I found what appears to be a Gallant Knight set in the 1961 Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Impatient Partner." Here, William Hopper, Raymond Burr and Ray Collins are on the scene of a murder.

A little inspection will reveal that the rook at the center of the foreground is standing on a light square, which means that the board was laid out incorrectly. As we can spot a few dark pieces at lower left, I'd guess that the ranks in full view are the White side, and we therefore note that the White Queen must be standing on a dark square, so at least the d and e files will have the correct notation.

It just might be possible that we're seeing red-colored pieces as the "Black" side, and the other side is White but just looks dark due to a shadow, but in that case the board would still be incorrectly places, and the king- and queen-sides would be confusing mirror-images of what they ought to be.

No, the board wasn't a clue, just a prop. Too bad! I was hoping for something like:

"Lieutenant, no decent chess player would have set up the board in this fashion: it must have been tampered with by a non-player!"

"White on the right, eh, Perry? You just don't understand the criminal mind."

Not a pretty set but it's the one I learned to play on. I recently took temporary possession of the pieces in order to replace a missing black bishop and a missing black rook. I've seen these sets posted here before, are they Peruvian?

Looks perfectly nice to these eyes.

I believe this is a variant of a Philippines chess set - here’s mine sourced from Holger Langer.

A Phillipines chess set! Thank you, I always forget. This one has A LOT of variance in the pieces, yours looks to be of a higher build quality. This one has mismatched pawn tops, different shapes to the bishops and rooks from side to side and one long necked black knight. Though I have a soft spot for this set as it is my parents' set and the one I was taught to play with. It's old as my dad got it second hand when he was younger.

Elder Knight, the pieces look so tall and the guys so lost it could be a shrinking scene like in Alice in Wonderland. In that case the malarranged set could be a clue that normal laws do not apply today.

Ibuildchess; very nice replacements for your childhood set- so good nobody noticed! How did you match the colour? Are you going to leave well alone or are you going to add some shiny laquer?

Very interesting. I never knew that Chavet made sets without the typical Chavet knight design.

I'd be lying if I didn't say I like that room DKW. Tasteful.

Very cool

Funny - ‘regret’ is too strong a word but early in my collecting I found an attractive vintage plastic chess set at a second-hand shop - that I subsequently on-sold - I wish I hadn’t. I’ll probably buy another one day; they are tough, functional and can be attractive.

Plastic pieces like these accept no use, use will not show in them. They are not friends of our hands. I sure have a couple of old plastic sets to play in the rain, they splinter and crack. This mouse pad board is a flash, so thin as if you were simply playing on velvet veneer. Still going virtual while claiming to merge the best of both worlds, natural and artificial. The clock is yelling out the digits to the tiring eyes as if a chess clock were to reduce time to its essence, and as if its essence was quartz. The heroes from the pre-computer era on the wall. Drawn blinds- night? day? cellar? attic? Neon lights from the screen, the slush ice nickelodeon and the desperate king walk of fame. Cupboards containing repros collected by a player. Cups worth winning. An open book, and a fascinating display.

Wow ungewichtet! You're quite the wordsmith.... Very impressive.

& here am I, looking at one antique chess set sitting on it's board on my coffee table .

The new upcoming Howard series. How about this design?

Tal and Fischer did not learn chess in a time of engineered play. None of us older players did, we were all climbing on the shoulders of mammals. You seem to be celebrating this human world of chess, with tournaments people went to by bike, car, train or plane, with sets for whatever level of play made for best play, turned by Jaques, re-turned today or cast in plastic, no matter, as long as it captures the practical imaginative spirit of the game (or something). Your iconizing the king, as by your name, your pentaptychon , the world champions, even the cups you win.. is quite alright if we remember that the king is the ultimately average or all-american piece: Moves like bishop, rook and queen, an octopus like the knight, short range like the pawn- which can never promote to a king, and the king never leaves the board. So the king, all-important and all-vulnerable as it seems, is and should be pictured as from the people.

I cropped #4/7 from your series to this. I like best the upside down image of the Russian clock between board and zmf-pro. Tal and Fischer are great kings.