Post Your Chess Sets

Thank you, I was really chuffed how it finished up

Thank you very much! With the 10mm tempered glass on top it makes the pieces look as though they are floating... Trippy!

Nice! Is that first one a Chavet repro?

I have a '59 Russian Zagreb set on it's way to me right now/in transit.I ordered it in Padauk and Boxwood,hoping it would be a higher quality set than the norm(it wasn't cheap)....If it's as nice as the one in post #1269,I'll be thrilled.

There's a 3" version on wholesale chess. Yeah it's an 1/8" taller but not much of a difference. $50 is not a bad price either.

https://www.wholesalechess.com/shop/chess-products/chess-gifts/gifts-under-50/zagreb-chess-pieces-3-king

@MCH818 I might get one to use for a Straight Up Chessboard. I have been wanting a Straight Up Chessboard for a long time. However not in a rectangle shape. I do have a local woodworker that could make me one. 

Um,well....I don't know if you guys realize this,but the more chess sets you own,the better you

begin to play.-

I am really surprised you guys own so many sets. It makes me relieved really that I'm not so odd wanting so many sets. 

@magictwanger - LOL, in this case I should be a grandmaster rather than the patzer I am.

Nothing odd about owning some nice sets,which are actually art and in many cases historical.....It's nothing compared to the LP collectors I used to hang out with.The hard to find pressings could go for $100-$300 a shot.

I expect to jump at least 100 Rapid rating points,when I get my Zagreb set,due any day....-

The Zagreb will surely help.

Don't expect much from a Zagreb.

It was easier in the old days. In the nineties one could boost one's FIDE rating by 100-200 points or so with a Dubrovnik repro, but nowadays with all this online play an original 1849 Jaques will get you 50 if you are lucky.

-Izmet

Izmet...You do know I was kidding?

Of course. I just expanded.

🤣

Looking at all the beautiful sets here made me do a search to see how pieces were made and I found this video made just a few months ago:

I am pretty sure this incoming Zagreb set is my last.Admittedly,there are times I think I went a little overboard.Still,It's really an impressive little collection.I need to get more into my chess books,having finished 6 of my 12.The last bunch will take a good while to digest.The "only" good thing about lock down life.

I definitely prefer the actual playing of the game,more than the collecting,but chess has many enjoyable aspects to it......I wish more of you folks played online,as I see quite a few contributors don't play here too much.

I agree. I'm limited by money and space (mostly space). I'll be content with my 2 sets for now but that Vienna Coffee House set at the Chess Store has my name on it.

I'm not really into chess pieces in sense of I want to buy all those various designs. I like to see them though, and some even admiring. But somehow I don't feel the urge to buy it. 

Here is the odd part, I've seen some chess boards that I very much like and the longer I look at it, the more I want to buy it. So I bought one light colored board already and just ordered a dark colored one.

Are there more people like me who likes boards more then pieces?