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MY Butterfly Wing chess board and another one . . . (memoir)
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Nice board, butterfly wings are so decorative.
Sep 7, 2010
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Denver - wonderful pictures. The butterfly board pictures are really cool and the board looks great framed like that. I also like the reflection in the board of the tree. Your son did a great job photographing them.
As for the Fischer books, I have two myself, Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess and Bobby Fischer - The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion.
Thanks for sharing the picks Denver, and your memoirs too. Although I don't reply to too many posts anymore, I've really enjoyed yours. Keep 'em coming. 
Cool, thanx for showing
Nice board!
Very beautiful Denver, I dare say that the technique of glass is "fusing"... Ceramic and glass together. It makes enough for Castellón (Spain).
You can see here
http://keramik.es/SeriesKeramik.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4XuI2xDx-w
Your thoughts are always very well regarded 
Beautiful!
Cool looking board. Since all I have is a wooden board from Wal-Mart, I won't bother posting a picture of it.
Sep 7, 2010
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Hi woodshover
I have never seen one from Walmart.
I'd like to see it.
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Hi BorgQueen
The second photo is the close up of the middle of the board. Actually my son used a digital camera and at high resolution. The photo was so large that I had to make it smaller for chess.com.
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Thanks to all of you that commented and to all of you that just read.
I don't think I would sell this board. I will leave it for one of my sons, when I get mated.
Bye for now
Sep 7, 2010
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Hi BorgQueen
I will go to my photo album and I will post a full resolution and see what happens.
I think it reduces it automatically when it post.
I will do, in five minutes it will be there.
It will be the first one shown.
Hey! Beautiful, just beautiful.
I love that third photo, the one without flash. Those reflections... Nature is amazing, isn't it?
I had read the other thread but the images were gone by the time I read it. I'm glad you reposted it.
Sep 7, 2010
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BorgQueen
I posted it the full resolution and size but I think it optimized it to fit chess.com
It is the number one on the photo album.
http://www.chess.com/photos/view_album/DENVERHIGH/chess-stuff
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Hi bgangioni
I reposted and added them to that album also.
Thanks for the comment.
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Bye for now
Aug 18, 2011
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That is really neat! My father had been given one after my grandparents went to Brazil back in the fifties. (They had actually picked up two boards. And no, I have not a clue what happened to the second one) But recently we had hand-made pieces made for it that match real nicely, and we use it quite often. :D Its really cool to see that a few of these boards still around.
Feb 28, 2012
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An update on my board. We had to replace the back of the board due to my grandfather damaging it quite badly years ago. Quite interestingly enough, there were several newspapers and a hand drawn map inside. After putting everything back the way we found it, we replaced the old torn board with a newer board. (That looked exactly like the old one, but undamaged) It was very interesting to take a step back in time and see what things were like back in the day in a country like Brazil. But the mystery will remain, where does the map lead?
Feb 28, 2012
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NTFSBUG wrote:
An update on my board. We had to replace the back of the board due to my grandfather damaging it quite badly years ago. . But the mystery will remain, where does the map lead?
Maybe the mystery could be a book or a movie! Start writing.
Hi NTFSBUG:
I also had to replace the back board which was not flat and bent. I removed it from the frame and found that the butterfly wings are pasted onto the glass. So if the glass breaks then the art chess board would be gone forever.
I took it to a glass shop and the owner who I have know for thirty years spent an hour talking and cutting another glass to protect the original. Making sure that it would last. I also purchased 1/8" finished veneer for the back. Refinished the frame and now It hangs on the living room wall. I can take it down and lay it on a table to use and play on it.
I wonder which of my four sons or six grandchildren will inherit this chess board?
Bye
Those are real butterfly wings? Poor butterflies.
Feb 28, 2012
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That is very interesting. We noticed the same thing with the wings being pasted on the glass as well. Fortunately the board was in good enough shape that we did not have to do much work to it. But to keep it like new, we keep it in a very safe place in the house....
Great suggestion though! That would be quite interesting. It would make for a great mystery starting in the jungles of Brazil!
Any of them have fine taste who takes great care of things and a great enjoyment of chess? Because I would want to know that it would get taken care of.
By the way! If you want to sort of see the board, my profile pic is of me with the board. Not sure if you can see it very well.... I am thinking about eventually posting pictures of it.
Again, amazing to know that there are more out there! Thanks for sharing yours!
Feb 28, 2012
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NTFSBUG wrote:
By the way! If you want to sort of see the board, my profile pic is of me with the board. Not sure if you can see it very well.... I am thinking about eventually posting pictures of it. Again, amazing to know that there are more out there! Thanks for sharing yours!
Hi Again
I went to your profile. I can see the board and the flourencent white squares. I see the frame is thicker, rounder and almost the same color as mine.
I can see white has taken four pawns on the queen side. White has castled. Were you playing someone? Who won?
Take some photos and post them. I enlarged your photo to be able to see it better.
Chess board with butter fly wings on the white squares.
There is a used book store "The Olive Tree" downtown where I live, that I have been a customer about forty years. They know that I am a chess teacher, soccer coach and a bowling coach. Mostly to the youth in town but I coach adults also. Mostly as a volunteer but sometimes I do it for a fee. They give me a discount on any book I purchase. I always purchase gift certificates for my three grandchildren for their birthday, holidays or whenever I want to give them a gift. They love to read. I like Borders as the second choice for a book store.
One day a woman that works there said to me, "My father used to play chess and I have the chess board he used, it is unique. I was wondering if you would like to have it. I have been thinking to offer it to you for quite a while, but I keep forgetting."
"Absolutely You can never have enough chess boards. Is it wooden or what is it that makes it unique?"
"My dad used to travel and he picked it up in Brazil. It is wood with glass over the board. The lite squares are made from butterfly wings and the dark squares are black. He picked it up in the 50’s. They don't make them any more since they are on the endangered species. I don't have the pieces but your welcome to have the chess board. I have had it for twenty years."
"I will be happy to take it. If you want something money for it I will be happy to pay you for it."
“No. That isn’t necessary. I know that it’s going into good hands.”
I knew she would not take anything for it. One day I am going to ask her to lunch or dinner with me at my favorite Mexican restaurant down the street.
It’s a beautiful board . . . I have never used it . . . I has just sat behind my dresser . . . I love the colors the way the blues change to green, brown, they look fluorescent, then back . . . It seems to glow even without much light . . . Hmm . . . Maybe I should hang it on a wall as a picture to display it . . . The top is glass to protect the butterfly wings under it . . . It is in a dark brown wood frame with light brown inlay strips . . . I has a “Made in Brazil . . . The back is nailed with finishing nails . . . The squares are 1 3/4 inches . . . If I display it as a chess board, I would have to purchase a suitable fancy chess set . . .
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See the wings change fluorescent colors!
If you have a laptop computer, then you can see the photos with the butterfly wings change colors, by moving the laptop screen back and forth. Give it a try.
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This first photo is the board held with my hands showing. See the inlay around the frame. The actual playing board is 14" inches and the frame is 21" inches square.
The third photo shot is the board taken without any lighting or any flash. That's why its kind of dark, but look at the colors that reflect the ambient light.
The next board is one that I have had since 1961. I purchased it for $35.00. It is a Formica brand table top.
My sons said, "Dad you used to have it sitting behind the couch or dresser for years. Always saying that you were going to have it mounted."
Forty years later I finally had it mounted on a wood base. That was in 2001. The wood edge has been left unstained so I can select the color that I want on it. It has been a one score years now. It can be used for cards, checkers, backgammon, chess, and it has a # 6 domino imprinted in the center to start that game . . . I don't have any legs for it . . . It is to heavy for a card table . . . but I will get a base for it this year . . .
On the board are two books that I just purchased. "Learn from Bobby Fischer's Greatest Games by Eric Schiller, 2004, by Cordoza Publishing" and "Winning Chess Strategies by Yasser Sriawan, 1994 by Microsoft Press". . .