Wooden chess set?

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Does anyone know the name of and where I can find this chess set in this video? -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o17BZK-o34M

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zerofuxgivn wrote:

Does anyone know the name of and where I can find this chess set in this video? -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o17BZK-o34M

That is a pretty unbelievably fast bullet chess game using a real set. In the first game, they make it pretty close to the end before chaos ensues. The second game is played all the way to mate. The games are reported to be between two Polish grandmasters, Socko (on the left) and Bartel

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Maybe it's easier to recognize when the knights are up front. 

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I think those are Polish-made Staunton-pieces. I believe we have these at my club. You can probably find them here, for example. (The page is in Swedish though, sorry.)

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It actually looks like a mix of sets, am I the only one who sees two differnt dark color knights? But I agree with the idea of them being a Polish set liek these. 

http://www.amazon.com/Staunton-Tournament-Chess-Pieces-Wood/dp/B000Z9G456/ref=sr_1_4?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1433166828&sr=1-4

 

I might be way off base, but there are people way more knowedlegable than me that I'm sure will clear this all up. :)

Avatar of kenardi

i third that vote... looks like the unweighted polish-made set to me too.

only watched the first game in the video... crazy end game, excellent example of why i dont play bullet.  Laughing

need slow motion replay in that end game.  Laughing

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These are very similar, and you can get them from Slovakia. They're available in three different sizes (Staunton 5, 6, and 7):

https://www.chessshop.eu/chess-pieces/52-staunton-no-6.html