Post Your Chess Sets

My first thought (before I read the text was: Hmmm... Finnish?

+1 - nice mods. 👍

This set is so cute. 😍 Thanks for showing them.

Kinda like chilled white wine in summer, or a room-temp red in winter,,,this feels like a winter set by a fire.

3" Spanish chess pieces with properties from both Escardibul and Indajesa pieces, so I'm not sure which it is. Bought them for the price of a pint of beer thinking it was a plastic set based on the sellers' picture. Turned out to be a wooden set. No idea on the age though.

what kind of expensive ahh beer costs as much as a wooden chess set?

I'm Belgian, we express all value in beer-equivalent 😅🍺

Fide world championship chess set...

Some people hate it but i personally love it!

cant decide if my fave piece is the knights or kings.. easily my most hated piece is the bishop in this set

Unfortunately the black pieces don't show too well on the videos/photos

Here's a video of unpacking the set with some detail on each piece

https://youtu.be/zyRums_Ia_k

Hi. New to Chess. But LOVE collecting stuff. Just discovered chess sets. Very very cool stuff. I just bought this set ( not a good show on a Chinese board but all I have at the moment). Anyone ever see a pewter WW2 equipment set? Tanks are bishops, bombers knights, pawns are Messerschmitt or p51s?

Not a good show? Works only on that board Very seasonable way to start your chess collection. I once tried to argue that weaponry has no agency, but then, chess had a war chariot (=rukh) for a rook when it started. That was in tschaturanga (which in Sanskrit means 'having four limbs' and, with regard to the army, invoked its four divisions infantry, cavalry, elephantry and chariotry). I like the semantically home binding ways we have naming the set in German: King, dame (which means gentlewoman), runner (which refers to courier), jumper for the knight (running and jumping, complementary ways to move about quickly), tower and peasant. The English language has bishop, the French and Romanian jester, the Russian and Spanish leave the bishop piece at elephant. An elephant is wiser than a tank

It has no foot soldiers for pawns. What a lofty attitude is that? It may be spectacular with the many planes, but to make a war set and not show the pawns as infanterists is kind of wrong to me.

Hmmm. Well - I am just starting and was surprised by how cool it was to advance your P51s in front of the rest of your chess army. Made my kid play me twice. Agreed it is not a great set as there is lots of tangling between the pieces. The fighter planes as pawns have a really cool effect in the game. IMO

@wildthingthing If you're going to start collecting chess sets, then I bet you'll be getting some interesting sets that most people don't regularly see, like that one. What can you tell us about that set? Also, you said it's a Chinese board...do you also have Chinese pieces? Thanks.