Your analysis chess set

Hello all,

With everyone having more than one set which one do you use on a daily base to analyze and study? Just curious why that one? Im referring to the regular size set

Post the pics of it!!!

Thank you all

I have just one board which I use to playing and analyzing. It is 45 mm * 45 mm

Chessmate check wallet is handy for me..!

I have a set of small wooden pieces, I believe they are Dal Rossi. I bought them from a board-games shop here in Australia. They cost around $25. I pair these with a 12' vinyl board I picked up online. This chess set fits nicely in my bag if I'm out and about, and it also sits on one side of my desk.

Americans have a much better deal here, I think. You can just pick up a vinyl board and nice plastic analysis pieces from House of Staunton or the like. Most Australian chess vendors only have full size vinyl boards. So it's either look online and pay through the nose for shipping, buy an expensive inlaid wooden board, or buy some awful soapstone monstrosity that looks like it belongs in a shopping centre arcade. But I digress. 

I also have a couple of those magnetic boards, the ones that are around 10cm square. I loved those when I was a kid. They are a little hard to play with, though. Even with my relatively small hands I feel like I need tweezers to move the pieces.

Standard dubro from muba shop is my ususal tool with Analyze me (stockfish) for Android....

... those eyes ...

Nice looking set, and the book too!!

Ditto!

I use SCID

Kenardi, how big is that board and pieces?

King is 2-1/2" tall , board is 12"x12", squares 1-5/16"

Very nice.

This seems to be the trend.  I think most players just use a computer now.  Some still like to move the pieces, like myself.

I played a kid the other night, he had an electronic pad for recording the game.

As the game got more complicated, he would look at the electronic device and not the board, he even hit the clock a few times after recording his move on the device without moveing the pieces on the board.

I think some of these kids are too dependent on their electronic devices.

This is a good point. On the other hand, I soon will be 63, and I love the convenience of ebooks and analyzing on a computer because it lets me keep track of lines without losing my place, which happened all the time when I just used a book and board. My favorites are the ebooks proprietary to Chessbase, but I'm forcing myself to get used to other formats. Even when I have a book not in an ebook format, I like to use Chessbase to go through the book. I look up the game, go through it, add the variations, which are easy to backtrack on, and when I'm done, I save the game to a database dedicated to the book. If it's an opening book, I then can create a new opening book in Chess Opening Wizard, or add it to one I already have, so I keep track of what I've gone through and can review it whenever I want to later. Which, as dementia sets in, is more and more.

Should have called a TD, he was absolutely getting an unfair and illegal advantage by doing that. 

-Electronic devices are generally banned in tournament play (I don't know what sort of device he was using specifically, but it'd probably fall under the blanket ban)

-If he is moving pieces around on the electronic pad before moving, that qualifies as note taking (honestly, this is probably worse than just writing a move down and not making it, as he literally will see what the board looks like after his move).

it was casual play at a coffe shop.  i guess i was in a good mood.  normally i ask them to use a pad and put the electronic device away.

I had mine set up with a 3.75" king and a 2.25" board.  It looked nice(see the full set here http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/house-of-staunton-quotclassic-375quot  ), and it fit, but it started becoming more and more cumbersome to analyze on.  The pieces were kinda heavy, took up lots of room, and the board was just too big.

So, I took a 1.875" Vinyl board, chopped the edges off of it, cut a piece of plywood to set it on(to easily move the board without disturbing the pieces) and put a 3" set on it(see the full set here http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/is-this-chess-set-to-crowded-on-this-board  ) .
The board is ugly as crap, but it just works better for me.  I find that 1.875" squares, with a set that fits that board size, are perfect for me and analysis.

I use the board to play online games(correspondence).  I've also been finishing up Amateur's Mind(for about a year haha).

That's a great idea, sticking the vinyl board to the plywood. Did you have any trouble with it? Which glue did you use? I have been idly considering sticking a cheap vinyl board with 5-inch squares to one of those IKEA Lack tables to make a "chess table) (I'm a chess player on a budget) but I'm wondering if it's more trouble than it's worth.