Thanks for the great photos - looks like a special place. I hope to have a room like this one day...
The Chess Set Display Grows
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May 11, 2017
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zm55 wrote:
Thanks for the great photos - looks like a special place. I hope to have a room like this one day...
Your welcome, ZM. It is a very special place. Especially with the two beer fridges (not pictured).
May 12, 2017
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cgrau wrote:
GM4U wrote:
cgrau wrote:
Here's what the west wall of the game room now looks like...
Wow that is impressive Chuck!
Many thanks, Carl!
Your 1851 and 1870 sets are stars of the collection. Saturday night, we're playing with your new Leuchars set. I still have to display your Fischer/Spassky set, but it's on the menu.
You're always welcome when you venture to this side of the pond.
Thanks Chuck, very kind of you. ...you better make a little more space though as you know we have some amazing sets in the pipeline 
May 12, 2017
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#47
GM4U wrote:
cgrau wrote:
GM4U wrote:
cgrau wrote:
Here's what the west wall of the game room now looks like...
Wow that is impressive Chuck!
Many thanks, Carl!
Your 1851 and 1870 sets are stars of the collection. Saturday night, we're playing with your new Leuchars set. I still have to display your Fischer/Spassky set, but it's on the menu.
You're always welcome when you venture to this side of the pond.
Thanks Chuck, very kind of you. ...you better make a little more space though as you know we have some amazing sets in the pipeline
LOL, yes, some of the sets currently displayed will be subject to an Exchange Variation!
May 12, 2017
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#48
UpcountryRain wrote:
Fantastic collection, cgrau! Very happy for you.
Thanks, Up!
May 12, 2017
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#50
verylate wrote:
As much as I enjoy viewing your collection, Chuck, I also enjoy reading other people's reactions to your thread. I'm not usually given to all-caps and multiple punctuation marks, but then neither is Goodknightmike, who put it quite succinctly: TRIPLE EXCLAIM !!! We can't all match your collection, but we can all strive to express our praise in our own unique ways. Thanks for sharing. Gorgeous. Just beautiful. Can't say enough.
Many thanks, VL! I wish everyone could come over and we could play with them!
May 12, 2017
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#51
Chuck - I expect you're going to say no but thought I'd ask anyway - would you mind giving me your collection of chess sets? I can message you my postal address. I suspect that shipping costs of that lot from the USA to the UK will be quite high so I am prepared to make a small token contribution towards those costs, maybe 5 US dollars or so. What do you say?
May 13, 2017
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#52
IpswichMatt wrote:
Chuck - I expect you're going to say no but thought I'd ask anyway - would you mind giving me your collection of chess sets? I can message you my postal address. I suspect that shipping costs of that lot from the USA to the UK will be quite high so I am prepared to make a small token contribution towards those costs, maybe 5 US dollars or so. What do you say?
LOL, Matt I think I'll respectfully decline your generous offer.
May 13, 2017
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#53
Displayed two more sets today and reorganized the Soviet and Eastern European sets a bit.
Here is House of Staunton's British Chess Company reproduction. A 4" king, and antiqued, but lacking kingside stamping.
May 13, 2017
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#54
And rounding out the row is House of Staunton's Zuckertort set Jaques reproduction. Like the BCC set, it's antiqued with 4" kings, but no kingside stampings.
May 13, 2017
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#55
Looking down the shelf of Jaques and British Chess Company reproductions...
May 13, 2017
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#56
By reorganizing the Soviet sets, I was able to get two more Grandmaster sets moved onto the main Soviet shelf.
May 13, 2017
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#58
cgrau wrote:
And rounding out the row is House of Staunton's Lasker set Jaques reproduction. Like the BCC set, it's antiqued with 4" kings, but no kingside stampings.
Hi Chuck, lovely display. Is the one referenced a Lasker or Zuckertort reproduction. Looks like a Zuckertort to me but maybe I'm wrong.
May 13, 2017
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#59
I swapped the Czech set and the MOM clock, and moved the NOJ 1950 Dubro one shelf closer to the front. The reorganization opened up room for three more organizers on the shelf. I moved the Soviet storage boards down to the floor.
May 13, 2017
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#60
Audioq wrote:
cgrau wrote:
And rounding out the row is House of Staunton's Lasker set Jaques reproduction. Like the BCC set, it's antiqued with 4" kings, but no kingside stampings.
Hi Chuck, lovely display. Is the one referenced a Lasker or Zuckertort reproduction. Looks like a Zuckertort to me but maybe I'm wrong.
Thanks Audioq! You're right. It's an HOS Zuckertort set. I always want to call it a Lasker.
Thanks for posting those Chuck. I keep buying chess sets off ebay and I was beginning to think I have too many.
Now I realise I don't have nearly enough.
LOL, Matt. Life is short. Buy the damn chess set.