Earlier this year a special, big 'Rotterdam Chess Set' was presented during the Rotterdam Museum Night, and this month the tabletop version came on the market. You can now win such a chess set!
Schaaksite, a Dutch site for chess fans, announces a competition connected with the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in January 2011 and gives away three sets.A first version of the large Rotterdam Chess Set was presented as early as 2005 times at a great mind games festival in the Central Library in Rotterdam. Harry Hoek, responsible for exhibitions at the Central Library in Rotterdam, is the spiritual father and creator of this design.With support from the City of Rotterdam (incentive) and the Chess Museum Rotterdam it was made possible to develop a major new version of the Rotterdam Chess Set. The Chess Pieces Museum made it possible to develop and produce a tabletop version. Harry Hoek, Carel van der Poel and Haiko de Jong were closely involved.
The pieces represent striking buildings in Rotterdam:
King : Euromast
Queen : Erasmus Bridge
Rook : Maas Tower
Knight : Shipping and Transport College
Bishop : World Trade Center
Pawn : Cube Houses
Contest
Schaaksite.nl, a Dutch site for chess fans, announces a competition connected with the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in January 2011. The site gives away three sets as prices - real collector's items!All you have to do is predict the winners of the three groups A, B and C (name and number of points, to be given for each group A, B and C). The closing date is 13th of January 2011.
Schaaksite.nl's Teun Koorevaar announces the competition: "Among the best predictors we'll have a lottery to give away three sets of the new Rotterdam Chess Set. The announcement of the winners will take place on the last day of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament."The Chessvibes visitors are welcome to join the lottery (free of charge). They can send their predictions to:
tataschaaksite@gmail.com
--> More info in Dutch here
Earlier this year a special, big 'Rotterdam Chess Set' was presented during the Rotterdam Museum Night, and this month the tabletop version came on the market. You can now win such a chess set! Schaaksite, a Dutch site for chess fans, announces a competition connected with the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in January 2011 and gives away three sets.A first version of the large Rotterdam Chess Set was presented as early as 2005 times at a great mind games festival in the Central Library in Rotterdam. Harry Hoek, responsible for exhibitions at the Central Library in Rotterdam, is the spiritual father and creator of this design.With support from the City of Rotterdam (incentive) and the Chess Museum Rotterdam it was made possible to develop a major new version of the Rotterdam Chess Set. The Chess Pieces Museum made it possible to develop and produce a tabletop version. Harry Hoek, Carel van der Poel and Haiko de Jong were closely involved.
The pieces represent striking buildings in Rotterdam:
King : Euromast
Queen : Erasmus Bridge
Rook : Maas Tower
Knight : Shipping and Transport College
Bishop : World Trade Center
Pawn : Cube Houses
