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• Folding Magnetic Club Chess Set in Golden Rosewood/Maple - King Size 3" + 2 Extra Queens
• Mass-Produced 20th Century Staunton Sets
• The Staunton Standard: A Talk with Collectors and Curators
• Chess Board/Drawer + 3" Galaxy Staunton Chess Set Rosewood/Boxwood with 2 Extra Queens, 4 Extra Knights & 2 Extra Pawns

Many produced their own interpretations of the Staunton pattern, some with new materials and others with distinctive forms. The Chessmen are new and each set consists of 34 Chessmen, including four Queens, a standard that was introduced by The House of Staunton in 1993. Excellent article, perfect description, satisfying expectations, the pieces are stable and easy to handle. All our items pass through stringent quality control to deliver you the finest product you have ordered.

Folding Magnetic Club Chess Set in Golden Rosewood/Maple - King Size 3" + 2 Extra Queens

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RS Recommends: The Best Chess Sets for Beginners and Old Pros Alike.

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Maybe if I spent a few hours cleaning, removing the glue and polishing them I would see it. Next, the "luxurious billard cloth felt pads" on the bottom were all damaged. This is because the pieces are pushed into a foam packaging with pre cut out shapes to keep them secure during transit.

Mass-Produced 20th Century Staunton Sets

Though the Staunton pattern had risen dramatically in popularity during the 19th century, it was not until the 1920s that it became the standard for tournament play. An elegant English ivory chess set is paired with the tilt-top table. The set includes elements both typical of pre-Staunton playing sets, such as stacked “collar” decorations on the pieces, as well as ornamental elements like the waving rook flags. I purchased two wood sets and one board from thechessstore and everything arrived in perfect shape.

The Staunton Standard: A Talk with Collectors and Curators

Within only five years, he was both recognized as a prominent English player and had founded the first English-language chess periodical. Staunton was a controversial figure during his own era, sometimes alienating other members of the chess world by using his chess column to further conflicts with other players. Nevertheless, he also earned acclaim for his play as well as his efforts to standardize the rules of the game and organizing the first international chess tournament. From late 19th century to early 20th century, Richard Whitty manufactured Staunton-pattern chessmen from his workshop in Liverpool at 14 Tithebarn Street. His local claim-to-fame was as a manufacturer of fancy fishing tackle, which was probably sold in his brother’s store, along with chess sets, cribbage boards, and other items.

Folding Unique Staunton Ringy Rosewood 3.75" Chess Set - Chess Board with Engraved Algebraic Notation - 2 Extra Queens

These chess pieces bear witness to one of the most important games in the most famous World Chess Championship match—that between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. Fischer represented the United States and Spassky the Soviet Union. The Cold War tensions between the two nations increased media coverage of the match, and Fischer’s ultimate victory served to greatly popularize the game in the United States. Chess Hall of Fame inductee Jacqueline Piatigorsky, herself a top American player, took over the running of his chess club, renaming it the Herman Steiner Chess Club in his honor.

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Created for Jaques of London in 2000, Frank Camaratta based the form of this set on an original 1850 Jaques chess set in his collection. He took care to reproduce the set as closely as possible. I did get a very nice black and erable chess board from TCS that's very nice.

Advertisements indicated that early Staunton chessmen, like the ones on view here, were available in boxwood and ebony, ivory, and Wedgwood Carrara. Though made from wood and ivory, which were conventional materials for playing sets during that era, Staunton chessmen included a number of innovations, even aside from their forms. Jaques originated the praxis of weighting their chessmen for enhanced stability. Additionally, Jaques was the first chess set manufacturer to affix the symbol of a king’s crown to the summits of the kingside rooks and knights. Howard Staunton himself indicated that this would aid players in their study and analysis of games.

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The event included a number of prominent chess players and was won by Paul Morphy. Both Staunton and Saint-Amant were known as top talents in their respective home countries and both were writers as well as players. They played two matches in 1843—the first, held in London, was won by Saint-Amant. His victory was a source of national pride for members of the English chess community.

Each chessman in a Jaques set, sold during the first three years of production, had a small green paper disk affixed to the underside of their bases. This disk bore a registration mark consisting of a small diamond which identified the day, month and year the design was registered, the class, and a parcel number. This protected the design from piracy during those three years.

Tagua nut is often referred to as “vegetable ivory” due to it having a similar appearance and texture to animal ivory. It is a material for small sculptures, and around the era that this set was made, was also used to create buttons. Established in 1890, the British Chess Company (BCC) only operated for about fifteen years, but in that time had a lasting impact. The company was not only a leading producer of chess equipment, but also was part of the first major attempt to standardize the rules of chess for a broad audience. These rules were first adopted by the British as the British Chess Code and later by Americans, as the American Chess Code.

I was reluctant to buy from India but after reading good reviews here I made up my mind to take the plunge. This grouping of chess sets from the early and mid- 20th century demonstrates the liberties that chess set creators took with the then-familiar pattern in the decades following its introduction. Even creators who used a traditional medium—ivory—to create their pieces, played with the proportions of the pattern to create new and sometimes decorative versions of it.

Camaratta is a serious chess tournament player, national title holder, International Correspondence Chess Master, collector, and historian with a broad educational and professional background. He purchases and sells chess collections, large and small, and has provided numerous appraisal and research services. In addition, Camaratta has brokered the sale of several large collections in the States and overseas. In 1990, Camaratta founded The House of Staunton, Inc. and later, The House of Staunton Antiques, LLC. The Steiner Master Chess Set earns its name from its creator, 2010 U.S. Steiner was both a talented player and a well-known promoter of chess in California.

The finest chess sets in China were manufactured in Canton, where this elegant set was created. The British introduced Europeanized chess to China in the late 18th century, when they established trade networks in the country. Chinese ivory artists soon began producing gorgeous chess sets both for export and visiting tourists. The Philidor chessmen, named after 18th-century composer and chess player François-André Danican Philidor, were introduced in 1850 to compete with the Staunton style as the set of choice among tournament players.

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Chess master turned passion into business.

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I could'nt find any details about its construction (I suspected it was veneered, which I had no interest in owning but it dosen't state that anywhere). This Staunton-pattern set bears the influence both of Staunton chessmen and the earlier Edinburgh pattern. The slender rooks and queens topped by spheres are similar to those in the Edinburgh set on view in this case. The maker of this set was probably William Hallett, whom operated Hallett’s Ivory Turning Manufactory at 83 High Holborn Street in London. There, he produced sets from ivory, wood, and bone, as well as performed chess set repairs and taught ivory turning. In 2013, the Saint Louis Chess Club (STLCC) commissioned Frank Camaratta from The House of Staunton to create a unique chess set for the STLCC flagship event, The Sinquefield Cup (September 9-15, 2013).

Well, whoever pushed them into the foam packaging allowed the edges of the pads to be caught on the foam and it ripped them half to 3/4 of the way off the piece. I would have to spend a decent amount of time and effort glueing them all back on to the pieces. This was a huge blow to my confidence in HOS and I was very disappointed for the money I payed. I wanted to post on here to share a little about my recent experience trying to purchase a chess set for the first time. I chose to buy a set from House of Staunton, and below is an overview of my experience with them and their product. If you are considering buying a set from them, you may get some insight from this post.

These labels were used for sets sold during the first two years of production. The original Staunton chessmen produced by John Jaques were and still are quite unique in appearance. Although generally described as a radically new design for their time, the form was based on the earlier Edinburgh Upright Chessmen which were designed in the 1840s by Lord John Hay.