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Interesting exercise on a German  chess set that always fascinated me.


In all of them look at the board but especially for the chess pieces …
Look closely at two pictures of Mikhail Tal at the Olympiad in Leipzig 190.
Now look at a zoom of the pieces.

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Well ... look now at the photo of William Lombardy in his match at the 12th move with the Romanian Drimer (Lombardy will play 13.Tg1 and late lose the game).

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Now the same invitation but for this beautiful photo of Bobby Fischer in the same Olympiad. I think the position of the board does not correspond to any of any game played by Fischer in Leipzig, but to some analysis (if anyone could  identify the position, thank you)

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Thus: I have never seen an original of these pieces of the Leipzig Olympiad anywhere, nor do I know of any collectors who have them. My own friend and deceased MI Joaquim Durão who played this Olympiad  confirmed the rarity of this chess pieces.

 

Now I invite you to look closely at these German chess sets.


The famous Bohemia chess set, in this case the II who was king and lord in the late 70's and 80-70 in the opens and German National Chess Championship.

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Now another striking feature of the German chess, the Bayrwald of the 60s-70s, which has had two versions to my knowledge that of a very fine and elegant horse and a seahorse type horse.

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Now the plastic copy of the Bayerwald that flooded the German opens in the years 90-2000, and that still today has a great popularity in Germany.

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Now very little known, but very popular pieces of the ex-DDR and that look for to be a copy but very adapted of the Set of the Olympics of Leipzig.

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Ready ... AND NOW, what is the purpose of this exercise?
Simple: will it be that with chess pieces of the sets that showed if one can "build" a Leipzig Olympic 1960?
See The result:
Rooks of the Bohemia; King and Queen of the DDR set, Pans of the Bayerwald, and Knights of plastic (The beautiful Bayerwald Knights also serve!) And Helas ...

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And ...

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