Very nice displays. Nothing as good as chess history. That's why I love the game, it has a rich history. Thank you for displaying.
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Thank you for the info & nice pics.!
Arlindo, what can you tell us about the chess clock shown in front of the biography of Amos Burn? I've never seen this model before...
Great stuff, Arlindo. Many thanks. How large is Porto? Tell us about your club? Where does it meet? How many members does it have? It seems to have a dedicated space of its own--many clubs in the US meet in borrowed church basements. What is its future? Frank, that other clock caught my eye. The four buttons on top, Arlindo, what do they do? BTW, Alekhine is sitting in the middle of the couch, since no one else answered your question.
Great sets and some great history. Very nice.
Wonderful photos and great chess sets.
Great collection.
I love how the set with the Morphy book depicts the clerics as the fattest pieces on the board.
Thanks:
Chess Clocks: Unique pieces or almost unique!
Dear Friends, you did not see these chess clocks, neither able to see, because they are chess clocks with about 70 years old of a manufacturer founded in 1892 "Reguladora". He was virtually bankrupt for years, the factory still exists but does not manufacture chess clocks. They are typically made in Portugal in the years 30-40.
Ah! One clock has the name of " Tagarela" wich means " tall, talk", "babller", "tatller", ah! Ah!
My chess Club- 250 Club members, currently in 1st Division of the Portuguese Championship . Our first headquarters in the center of the City in a Historic coffe, now in a room in the center of Porto, and in the future in another wider roomdonated by Porto City Council for 25 years to develop chess school we have.
In our Club, everything is in Wood! Chessboards, Chess Pieces, cabinets, and so on. Is our tradition,no plastic. Mahogany, chestnut, pine. One thing that strikes me and makes me crazy is to see in photos a few years ago before closing, the chessboards of the Manhattan Chess Club with plastic pieces! (Yes, I know, Fischer played with the traditional and beatiful ( I have the wood repro of HOS) american chess pieces of 50-60, and they Are plastic! But anyway ... The same in the Marshall Chess Club!
A curiosity! Wood Chess Pieces, but we love diversity: We have in the chessboards : spanish chess pieces, German chess pieces, french, american, and Portuguese ones! Some members like play with one or another!
The set with the Morphy book - Is my cherished set! It's an Idian-Portuguese set, 1920-30 and all of them hand carved with knives, chisels! If you see, The Khights are unfinished...They have never been polished! The pawns are extraordinary, and the most beautiful ones of my chess cllection!
Pride and some glory! 75 Years of loving chess
Our little Museum
Restored, but typical of our club. The Pieces are american!
My cherished set!
W O N D E R F U L place.
I would love to play in a club like that one. We use plastic. I have the feeling that with such pieces they would dissapear from one day to another.
I'm moving to Porto. How hard is Portugese to learn? Magnificent. Just magnificent. The history, the photos, the pieces, the boards, the clocks, the space, the museum, the town's commitment to culture. Just magnificent.
Beautiful! Does anyone know where I could possibly find the American chess set, I think I've completely fallen for it:
Liu-NE wrote:
Beautiful! Does anyone know where I could possibly find the American chess set, I think I've completely fallen for it:
Liu-NE, I own this set, which appears ot be very close. The bishops' miters are not angular, but that is the only difference I espied on a quick look. On a second look, my king's crown is more angular.
cgrau wrote:
Liu-NE wrote:
Beautiful! Does anyone know where I could possibly find the American chess set, I think I've completely fallen for it:
Liu-NE, I own this set, which appears ot be very close. The bishops' miters are not angular, but that is the only difference I espied on a quick look. On a second look, my king's crown is more angular.
Thanks cgrau! It definitely looks similar. One reason I'm so enfatuated by this set is because I connected some dots:
The set can be seen being used by Kasparov for analysis in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN4lxFjahtA (Starting around 26:03)
Also it appears in this beautiful collection video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8PyGDMdTmM (around 1:55)
The video says it's a Drueke. I did some research, but the only wooden Drueke ones I could find around Kasparov's era were some rosewood ones, similar design, but not exact, and they are discontinued.
Currently, the closest match I could find are these sets:
I wonder if the original sets are still available somewhere though...but my researched so far has come to a dead end
Hello:
Liu-NE, the set is mine, the Club is my chess Club, and also the video in YouTbe ( Arlindo Vieira).
Yes the strange chess set with rounded lines. I like the difference in the Bishpos and the rounded kings ( Yes…also some soviet chess king’s pieces!)
Maybe 15 years ago in the USA Ebay a guy proposed a box with hundreds of these chess pieces, in all, 8 complete sets, and he called this "Drueke".Now obviously I have my doubts. I know the typical set (s) of this American chess Company, and the mine is not for sure.
It's a set made in the USA I have no doubt. In Europe, do not produce sets of this type. When I bought the 8 sets(7 to offer to my club) it was still not very common manufacturing in India, so sure that this set was manufactured in the USA.
Ah! I pay 40 USD for 8 sets. One or two had little cracks in the bases.
So..I think that my Club, and myself we belong to an "exclusive club" that has this chess pieces, manufactured in small number for sure.
Thanks
Hello, again me:
"The set can be seen being used by Kasparov for analysis in this video":
Well it's incredible : Yury DoKhonian and Garry analysis is made with a ""mixture" of the Previous set and the one that i show here!!!
Look at this: (vídeo)
Look at the Khight od my chess set ( another chess set that I buy 15 years ago in USA)
Again the vídeo:
And now, the other American chess set that I bought 15 or more years ago:
Fascinating: The King , The Bishop, the Rooks, are from the previous set ( the rounded one), the Queen, the pawns and The Knights are of that set!
Thanks Liu-NE for oblige me to look more atentive to my ones set! that's what makes me like this Forum, learning and discovery, not comercialite and marketing.
Wow! That is truly something else. Happy to help, and happy to learn something about this history myself. Who knows, hopefully I might one day come across these sets. Thank you for the pictures and info!
Wow BurnAmos your chess club seems like the most amazing chess club in the world!!! My chess club is 3-4 grumpy old men playing on 2$ plastic boards in a booksamillion cofee shop.
BurnAmos wrote:
Hello:
Liu-NE, the set is mine, the Club is my chess Club, and also the video in YouTbe ( Arlindo Vieira).
Yes the strange chess set with rounded lines. I like the difference in the Bishpos and the rounded kings ( Yes…also some soviet chess king’s pieces!)
Maybe 15 years ago in the USA Ebay a guy proposed a box with hundreds of these chess pieces, in all, 8 complete sets, and he called this "Drueke".Now obviously I have my doubts. I know the typical set (s) of this American chess Company, and the mine is not for sure.
It's a set made in the USA I have no doubt. In Europe, do not produce sets of this type. When I bought the 8 sets(7 to offer to my club) it was still not very common manufacturing in India, so sure that this set was manufactured in the USA.
Ah! I pay 40 USD for 8 sets. One or two had little cracks in the bases.
So..I think that my Club, and myself we belong to an "exclusive club" that has this chess pieces, manufactured in small number for sure.
Thanks
I'm not so sure those were manufactured in the US. I believe even in the seventies, Beekay was exporting sets like mine shown above from India to the US. Perhaps Drueke relabeled some of them as they did with Lardys.
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/beekay-set-in-boxwood-amp-ebony
Here's a Beekay catalogue. I found it hard to use but perhaps you can find your set or something close to it in here.
http://issuu.com/vs_rego/docs/beekays_chess_product_catalogue
Hello Chuck:
Yes, a very fine hypothesis, but strange : the two sets come from USA, and the first one I never saw im anywhere. I saw the catalogue, and in the Khights, yes veru close, but the Bishop and Queen of the first set very diferent. Perhaps here in the US anyone tried one by small manufacturing make chess pieces and for unknown reasons failed
to distribution !?
Well, my chess club "Grupo de Xadrez do Porto" (and my English-speaking friends do not say "Oporto" only Porto) is only 75 years old! The World champion Alekhine in their stay in Portugal on a visit to Porto, played some informal matches in my club. He signed a book of his best games, and we have a great photo with some members in our old chess room. We still have two tables of that time and several chairs in our current chess room. Some chess clocks are 75 years old.
Sometimes in important matches I like doing exhibitions of some of my chess material - books and sets.
I love to share.Enjoy. Crazy man I'm, loving this beautiful side of chess because I has long lost the taste for competitive chess. Almost 2000 FIDE elo, a bad player, I love the great of the game. My library is almost Tournaments, Games, and Bio and Games of the great players of chess story! Fischer my idol? Yes, I have a video in Youtube about the "Poet", but above all, the Gigant, the Great Emanuel ...LASKER! The " Thinker-Magician-Poet" of the chessboard.Tastes are not discussed!?
No I'm not that guy in the picture... I'm more for D'Artagnan type