My chess sets: M&S Christmas 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’.

This set was bought from M&S, I think in the January sales.

It is more design than chess: whoever designed it, isn’t a chess player. The pieces are tall, heavy oblongs, not easy to move at speed.

Rating

2/10: the design is quite different.