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Members' chess sets

Lighter Chess Set.JPG

Plug-in Travel Chess Set.jpg

Ladybird Shogi (Japanese Chess Set) pieces.jpg

St George Chess Set in turned wood.jpg

Mongolian Chess Set (Shatar) on Felt board.JPG

Ladybird Shogi (Japanese Chess Set) promoted pieces.jpg

blackwork-001.jpg

Very tiny Lego chess set

South American Chess Set (rear).jpg

International Draughts.jpg

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

Four-Handed Chess Set.jpg

Coffee-house chess set

Chessboard puzzle 1.JPG

Wooden Chess Set.jpg

Two Isle of Lewis Chess Sets.jpg

Musical Chess Table.jpg

Regency style chess set.JPG

Standard Staunton Chess Set in plastic.jpg

Indian Wood Chess Set on Musical Chess Table.JPG

3D Chinese Chess Set (detail).jpg

Chessboard Puzzle 2.JPG

Wood & Bakelite Travel Chess Set.jpg

Cannon chess set

Stainless Steel Hanayama Puzzle Chess set

Children's Japanese Chess Set.jpg

Marble Chess Set on an inlaid Granite Board.JPG

Large magnetic chess set.jpg

Pentomino Puzzle Chess Board.JPG

Courier Chess Board 12x8.jpg

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

Braille chess set with raised dark squares.JPG

Tiny Chess Set.jpg

Pentomino Chess Board Puzzle 1.JPG

Wooden Travel Chess Set with drawers.jpg

Spanish Regency Chess Set.JPG

Three Way Chess Set.jpg

Soapstone Chess Set.jpg

Vertical chess set

Bone 'Barleycorn' Chess Set.JPG

Marvel Comic Chess Set.JPG

Plastic Travel Chess Set.jpg

Chocolate Chess Set.JPG

Capablanca Chess Set.JPG

Twin Portland Chess Sets.jpg

Medium Wooden Plug-in Chess Set.JPG

Simpsons Chess Set.jpg

Pentomino Chess Board Puzzle 2.JPG

Modern Chess Set in horn.JPG

Dolls House Chess Set (magnetic).jpg

Mad Mate Chess Set.jpg

Dolls House Chess Table.jpg

Resin(?) chess set

Barleycorn chess set.JPG

Fantasy Chess Set.jpg

Sheep Chess Set 2.JPG

Self-explanatory Chess Set 2.JPG

Chaturanga Set - the parent of them all.jpg

Glass Chess Set.jpg

3D Chinese Chess Set.jpg

Variant chess sets.jpg

The Viking Game (Hanetafl) resin & cloth.jpg

Sheep Chess Set 1.JPG

Lotus Bud Chess Set.JPG

Russian Poppet chess set.JPG

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Star Trek (Tridimensional) Chess Set.jpg

Children's Shogi Set.jpg

Combination Draughts and Chess Set.jpg

Matryoshka Chess Set.jpg

Chinese Chess Set (2D).jpg

Plastic patio chess set_0.jpg

Handpainted Wooden Children's Chess Set - 1.JPG

Selenus chess set in bone.JPG

Hexagonal Chess Set.JPG

Musical Wooden Ches Table.jpg

Three concurrent games of exchange (bughouse).jpg

Star Wars Chess Set.jpg

The Viking Game (Tablut) wood & leather.jpg

Large Resin Chess Set on Wood inlay board.jpg

South American Chess Set.jpg

Xiangqi Board 8x9.jpg

Upright weighted chess set (reproduction)

Weighted wooden chess set.JPG

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

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

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

Handpainted Wooden Children's Chess Set - 2.JPG

Bauhaus-inspired Chess Set.jpg

Chinese Theme Chess Set.JPG

Courier Chess Set.jpg

Boards for playing.jpg

Quotes

> Does anybody know the etymology of skittles?
"Once in a Moscow chess club I saw how two first-category players knocked pieces off the board as they were exchanged, so that the pieces fell onto the floor.
It was as if they were playing skittles and not chess!"

Think Like A Grandmaster by Alexander KOTOV Michael Trent, michael@shogi.demon.co.uk