It was made by Faberge in 1905 of aventurine quartz, kalgan jasper and silver and is to be found in the Tim Adams and George Dean Faberge Collection.
I suspect if you and I pool whatever we may have we won't have enough to buy it. :(
Wird and Rare Chess set
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Well, it was a nice thought anyway.
The pictures reminded me of a short story I had read a long, long, time a go. As best as I can recall: An innoncent man is framed for a crime he did not commit.He is incarcerated and learns to play chess from the fellow in the next cell. Each has his own paper board and little slips of paper with the chess pieces names on them. Each man would call out the move he wanted to make and then would move the correct piece of paper to the appropriate square. They never saw each other's boards. After years and years of play, the prisoner got so good he did not need to look at his own paper board. He could just visualize the board and the moves in his mind.
After many years of nothing but hours and hours of chess play, he becomes exceptionally good. Upon his release from prison, he runs into an old rival, perhaps the man who had framed him and caused him to be locked up. The rival challenges him to a chess game. The rival produces a chess set that has crazy types of pieces, a mixture of pink, blue, orange and black men, animals and fantastic creatures.
The hero is stumped at first, confused by the weird collection of almost random pieces. He then closes his eyes and plays the entire game with his eyes closed, simply announcing his moves and having his rival do the same. Of course, he wins easily and repeatedly.
Nice story
The drinking Chess ,I'm not sure about the rules but I think whoever lose a piece must drink it all, the last guy standing is the winner. no for me
super Mario
no lights needed
A very expensive one
psy88 wrote:
The pictures reminded me of a short story I had read a long, long, time a go. As best as I can recall: An innoncent man is framed for a crime he did not commit.He is incarcerated and learns to play chess from the fellow in the next cell. Each has his own paper board and little slips of paper with the chess pieces names on them. Each man would call out the move he wanted to make and then would move the correct piece of paper to the appropriate square. They never saw each other's boards. After years and years of play, the prisoner got so good he did not need to look at his own paper board. He could just visualize the board and the moves in his mind.
After many years of nothing but hours and hours of chess play, he becomes exceptionally good. Upon his release from prison, he runs into an old rival, perhaps the man who had framed him and caused him to be locked up. The rival challenges him to a chess game. The rival produces a chess set that has crazy types of pieces, a mixture of pink, blue, orange and black men, animals and fantastic creatures.
The hero is stumped at first, confused by the weird collection of almost random pieces. He then closes his eyes and plays the entire game with his eyes closed, simply announcing his moves and having his rival do the same. Of course, he wins easily and repeatedly.
I remember this story! The ending I read had the hero winning a bet with his evil opponent & taking just one of the weird pieces & twisting it into a blob or something, thus ruining the set. IIRC this was in Playboy abaout 40 years ago...even then I only read the stories! 
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I always hate some of the themed chess sets that one really can't tell which piece is which, but that Mario one is nice since it says right on the base.
Some wonderful sets there.
Hard to beat a nice lead weighted Staunton, though. On a nice solid wood board. The pieces just feel so right in the hand. And the positions on the board so much easier to read.
Familiarity I suppose.
Yeah I'd rather spend my time on tactics and strategy, not working out if a half inch bolt is a knight or a bishop.
Javan64 wrote:
psy88 wrote:
The pictures reminded me of a short story I had read a long, long, time a go. As best as I can recall: An innoncent man is framed for a crime he did not commit.He is incarcerated and learns to play chess from the fellow in the next cell. Each has his own paper board and little slips of paper with the chess pieces names on them. Each man would call out the move he wanted to make and then would move the correct piece of paper to the appropriate square. They never saw each other's boards. After years and years of play, the prisoner got so good he did not need to look at his own paper board. He could just visualize the board and the moves in his mind.
After many years of nothing but hours and hours of chess play, he becomes exceptionally good. Upon his release from prison, he runs into an old rival, perhaps the man who had framed him and caused him to be locked up. The rival challenges him to a chess game. The rival produces a chess set that has crazy types of pieces, a mixture of pink, blue, orange and black men, animals and fantastic creatures.
The hero is stumped at first, confused by the weird collection of almost random pieces. He then closes his eyes and plays the entire game with his eyes closed, simply announcing his moves and having his rival do the same. Of course, he wins easily and repeatedly.
I remember this story! The ending I read had the hero winning a bet with his evil opponent & taking just one of the weird pieces & twisting it into a blob or something, thus ruining the set. IIRC this was in Playboy abaout 40 years ago...even then I only read the stories.
You are right about the ending. It came back to me more after I posted. And, you are right about Playboy, although I am afraid it might have been more than 40 years ago. I was recluctant to admit I read it in Playboy because I was too young to have that magazine back then. It is funny that we can remember the story but I could not tell you who was in that issue. I guess (if you will allow a terrible pun) I was more impressed by the chess than the chests in that magazine.
I really like the one in #18. Do you have any info on it?