My chess sets: Magnachess!, by Studio Pieris
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'.
History
Another chess set that I used extensively as a teenager when reading books. Compared to the Portland chess set, it was faster to use, particularly for my teenage fast fingers.
The design was also beautiful. I even liked the (what I thought) was the exotic sounding name 'Studio Pieris', London, who produced it.
Alas, over the years, one black pawn went missing; also, the hinge has started to break, no doubt from endless opening and reopening: looking carefully, the sellotape which holds it together can be seen.
Feeling
Again, this set is very much part of me. The loss of the pawn hurt badly at the time, and now knocks my feeling for the set, but I can't look at it without fond memories of childhood.
Rating
9/10
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