My chess sets: My most used set: red, white pieces, wooden peg board, travel set
This is an occasional series of postings inspired by a brief discussion on the flight home from Turkey this summer. The flight attendant saw I was reading a chess book (quelle surprise) and, just making polite small talk, said she also liked playing chess, saying that depending on whether other crew members played, she would play on stopovers. Later in the flight she asked me if I had a chess set at home…and that set me thinking. How many chess sets do I have? And since then number is, well, shall we say, quite high, I thought I would blog about them especially those which ‘mean something to me’.
My first pocket set
History
I can’t remember when I obtained this set, but it was in my very earliest years as a chess player. And it soon became my all-the-time set, using It to pore over as many books as I could lay my hands on, including my first chess book, Harry Golombek’s Game of chess.
Over time, the zip stuck and became difficult to open and close; and later, somehow, one of the red knights was lost, as can be seen in the picture.
Feeling about the set
I treasure this set, even though I no longer use it, preferring either a full sized set or magnetic ones. To me, this set reflects not days, not months, but years of my teenage years.
One of my favourite sets.
Rating
10/10: one never to part with.
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