CHESS SETS USED IN BOTH UNOFFICIAL AND OFFICIAL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Very nice ones indeed

Love this!! Minor note - there is no known image of Alexander McDonnell. Thanks mate!

Those pictures are the Rev. George Alcock MacDonnell. It's a common mistake. See here 2nd from left, 2nd row from the back, and here for other examples of the Reverend. Hope that helps!

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/mcdonnell.html   

Please some body, post Chess Master Alexander McDonnell's picture here!!

What about this?

Wait, does anyone know the name of chess set which was used in 2015 on World Chess Championship Rapid and Blitz in Germany?

Hi Mike,

It was the same old dgt timeless chess set:

Hi Pollo,

Read this my friend:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1978

Maybe you're confusing it with the 1978 World Cup?

Thank you Macrinus 

This is a great thread ,

Over looked or just missed so many nice Chess sets !

Thank you for your hard work in this .

My pleasure my friend.

I am looking for such information myself. Today's chess standards allow for tournament pieces to have King heights which vary from about 3 1/2" to 4", the actual limits being 86.5 mm to 104.5 mm. USCF standards allow the King to be taller, as high as 4 1/2".

But as recently as 1978, chess sets with a 5" King were sold as suitable for tournament use by Drueke in the USA. The original Staunton pieces had 4 3/8" as the King height of their club size. So the modern standards appear to have been only set recently.

They most definitely didn't use the German knight chess set. 

Chessopera you are full of it were are your facts ?

http://worldchampionshipchessset.com/design-world-chess.html

stop posting the wrong information !

Thanks for that link.

From the link, we learn the Daniel Weil designed the sets used in the recent World Championship. He says 'When the initial Staunton set was produced there was great precision – since then a disrepair had set in. I had to unravel the rationale behind the original set.'

Thanks goodness Daniel was here to save us from disrepaired chess sets. Here's a reminder of what his new and improved Knight looks like, in case anyone has successfully purged it from their memory:

I suppose it has the advantage that if you lose a Knight from your set, you could always get a small child to carve you a replacement which would be no worse than the original.

I don't completely dislike this knight, but for me, it has some unfortunate associations.  I call it the toilet bowl knight.  But I've never seen the set in person and imagine it's great to play with.

I've always thought that the knight was the weak link in the Weil set. Glad they only showed the head. If they showed the entire horse, he'd probably look like this.

Would be interested in the set if they changed three things:

1) Redesigned the knight.

2) Offered it in Sheesham, rosewood, or another light wood.

3) Lowered the price!