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No KnightsFork......Soviet does not disgust me as much!   And I understand that Sound67 did not mean anything hurtful in his use of it.

That's how I feel about that particular word.....If you can't understand my sentiments,well I guess you don't have the history that i do.

Time to move back to chess talk.

@magictwanger getting hung up on Nazi is hypocritical. Since Soviet doesn't effect you as much as Nazi. It is a double standard of your moral disgust for words. Being put to death because of political opposition is just as disgusting as be put to death because of you religion/race. No difference between the two. They are both just as evil. Now back to chess.

Listen Chris.....I got it! I understand your point and certainly don't want to see this escalate into something silly....I feel the way I feel....OK?

I doubt you have the historical perspective I do....Give it up,without trying to make me into something I am not.....I don't like the word.....Feel free to use it,or anyone else can as well.It's still a free society.

I agree and this raises a concern of mine. I'm new to all these various designs of chess sets so I've been happily looking at as many as I could. Lots of fun. But I find myself a little uncomfortable looking at the sets connected to fascism and communism. Here's a Soviet era set from CB. Pretty cool looking huh? I like it but I would I buy it? No. It references or represents the bad guys as would a hammer and sickle flag. Communists are the bad guys. In the Queen's Gambit I was rooting for Beth to beat the Russian of course because I wanted Beth to succeed but also I wanted her to beat the bad guy. I wanted the communist to lose. I despise communists as I despise fascists. Shouldn't we all? When I purchased my Sher-E-Punjab set from CB I researched the Sikh religion to find out if it was good or not. It's a good religion so I had no problem owning this set. I'm looking to own the Danum set from SC which comes with Christian crosses for the Kings. I'm not a Christian but Christianity is a good religion so I will comfortably purchase that set and stick the crosses atop the kings. These things are important to me and these are my thoughts.  

Fun fact about Acacia wood - it has a sweet smell to it, at least when it is new. Give it a sniff, sometimes that can identify the wood. Mine has a fairly strong smell even now.

@verylate Post #1428, stop trolling.

There already is. Cheap, hollow plastic pieces with a bit of gilt. Board set-up with black on right in accord with “alternative rules”. If you don’t say check, it does not count. Cheating, such as one found with Microsoft’s Windows 3 Ziggurat program is considered acceptable, but only when Trump does it.

You mean feel free to debate in another thread (I don't do circle-jerks). I've suggested just this. 

Nazi Paikidze? Disgusting? Nazi was the U.S. Women's Chess Champion in 2016 and again in 2018. I'm sure her parents weren't National Socialists. It's a safe bet that the word has a completely different meaning in her culture.

The full name of the Nazi Party was the National-Socialist German Workers' Party and they officially used the acronym NSDAP. Curiously, in Bavaria, the term "Nazi" was in use before the rise of the NSDAP as a colloquial and derogatory word for a backward farmer or peasant, characterizing an awkward and clumsy person.

It is a pretty shocking crime I agree. But I have an excuse! Basically I needed to get it photographed then hidden away in ten minutes flat, so that my wife did not get home and start questioning me as to why I'd bought ANOTHER chess set! Some men hide lovers from their partners. I hide chess pieces. 

I really wish one of you guys would start a separate thread on chess in religion and politics. 

Nazi (ნაზი) is not uncommon as a first name in Georgia, where she was born. It means "gentle", if I am not mistaken. The correct pronunciation is "nah-ZEE". She was named after her grandmother.

You don't. Collect anything you want. I was simply stating why I wouldn't which you would agree with considering your comment here.  

So you don't understand the difference between the OT and NT. Ok.

Errrrr how do you draw that conclusion?

I have about 64 sets, most of which are standard plastic tournament sets. I have an old, cheap French wooden set that I bought at auction. It is my current tournament set. I have a Reykjavik II set in rosewood and boxwood, that I used as my tournament set for about ten years. I have some cheap plastic sets from the 1970s. I have two House of Staunton sets in different sizes that are heavier than the bulk of my tournament sets.

I don’t like to fight ill-equipped ideologues. Left and right has no place here, unless one collects Soviet sets.

Join Open Discussion. That’s all we do there. 

 I’ve posted a few from time to time. Here’s a sampling of those I keep in my office. The knight that is laying down shows felt that I put on when the original paper felt peeled off. I bought this set at Toys-R-Us about 1990 and refelted it in 1999. The pieces show plenty of wear. Those on top of the Glenlivet box are rubber and bend. you can throw them at the wall and they will bounce back. The two atop the wooden box on the right are my current tournament set. I bought them at an auction three years ago.

Because I am a youth tournament director and chess coach, I have three bags in my storage unit containing chess sets. One contains 13 sets that I use in classrooms. It has several closely related plastic Staunton sets that have all mixed with one another so that none of the sets match. Two other bags contain 32 better matched sets, and I use them running tournaments.

Nice whisky collection also 🙂 or are those empty now?