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<blockquote><em>"After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes"</em></blockquote>

Author:

Howard STAUNTON

Members' chess sets

Coffee-house chess set

Plastic patio chess set_0.jpg

South American Chess Set (rear).jpg

Small messenger-bag-sized plastic chess set and board.jpg

Simpsons Chess Set.jpg

Pentomino Chess Board Puzzle 1.JPG

Large Resin Chess Set on Wood inlay board.jpg

Vertical chess set

Dolls House Chess Table.jpg

Sheep Chess Set 2.JPG

blackwork-001.jpg

Ladybird Shogi (Japanese Chess Set) promoted pieces.jpg

Plastic Travel Chess Set.jpg

Turned ox-bone chess set in natural colour and cochineal on folding wooden board.JPG

Weighted wooden chess set.JPG

Courier Chess Board 12x8.jpg

Hexagonal Chess Set.JPG

Chocolate Chess Set.JPG

Matryoshka Chess Set.jpg

Chinese Chess Set (2D).jpg

Lighter Chess Set.JPG

Barleycorn chess set.JPG

Sheep Chess Set 1.JPG

Mongolian Chess Set (Shatar) on Felt board.JPG

The Viking Game (Hanetafl) resin & cloth.jpg

Three Way Chess Set.jpg

Two Isle of Lewis Chess Sets.jpg

10x10 board for International Draughts (or Capablanca chess).jpg

Handpainted Wooden Children's Chess Set - 1.JPG

Three concurrent games of exchange (bughouse).jpg

Russian Poppet chess set.JPG

Marvel Comic Chess Set.JPG

Chaturanga Set - the parent of them all.jpg

Very tiny Lego chess set

Mad Mate Chess Set.jpg

Children's Japanese Chess Set.jpg

South American Chess Set.jpg

Ladybird Shogi (Japanese Chess Set) pieces.jpg

Uhlig bone chess set (given to Charlie for his birthday!)

Indian Wood Chess Set on Musical Chess Table.JPG

Tiny Chess Set.jpg

Soapstone Chess Set.jpg

Handpainted Wooden Children's Chess Set - 2.JPG

Combination Draughts and Chess Set.jpg

Star Trek (Tridimensional) Chess Set.jpg

3D Chinese Chess Set.jpg

Stainless Steel Hanayama Puzzle Chess set

Wooden Travel Chess Set with drawers.jpg

Xiangqi Board 8x9.jpg

Chinese Theme Chess Set.JPG

chushogi-occ.jpg

Courier Chess Set.jpg

Musical Chess Table.jpg

Pentomino Chess Board Puzzle 2.JPG

Selenus chess set in bone.JPG

Chessboard puzzle 1.JPG

The Viking Game (Tablut) wood & leather.jpg

Wood & Bakelite Travel Chess Set.jpg

Upright weighted chess set (reproduction)

Plug-in Travel Chess Set.jpg

Children's Shogi Set.jpg

Lotus Bud Chess Set.JPG

Large magnetic chess set.jpg

Star Wars Chess Set.jpg

Four-Handed Chess Set.jpg

Resin(?) chess set

Marble Chess Set on an inlaid Granite Board.JPG

Pentomino Puzzle Chess Board.JPG

Modern Chess Set in horn.JPG

Dolls House Chess Set (magnetic).jpg

Bauhaus-inspired Chess Set.jpg

Twin Portland Chess Sets.jpg

Bone 'Barleycorn' Chess Set.JPG

St George Chess Set in turned wood.jpg

Fantasy Chess Set.jpg

International Draughts.jpg

Chess Set for Makruk (Thai or Cambodian Chess).JPG

Medium Wooden Plug-in Chess Set.JPG

Glass Chess Set.jpg

Chessboard Puzzle 2.JPG

Regency style chess set.JPG

Wooden Chess Set.jpg

Variant chess sets.jpg

Braille chess set with raised dark squares.JPG

Spanish Regency Chess Set.JPG

Self-explanatory Chess Set 2.JPG

3D Chinese Chess Set (detail).jpg

Capablanca Chess Set.JPG

Boards for playing.jpg

Musical Wooden Ches Table.jpg

Cannon chess set

Standard Staunton Chess Set in plastic.jpg

Quotes

Chess is as much a 'know-how' skill as a 'know-that' body of knowledge.
RB Ramesh said something in an interview that I thought was very wise (and I paraphrase):
"If I want to learn swimming and don’t know how to swim, I buy some DVDs from a famous swimming coach or swimming world champion, who has done a 10-hour course. So I watch this course every day for one month, so I know all the theory, right, and what needs to be done, but if you push me into a swimming pool I will drown!"

RB Ramesh