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Beautiful! The Isle of Lewis chessmen look strangely modern on this board. Beautiful match in colors as well. Are your pieces wood?

My wife has the Lewis set in red (crushed stone resin). Last week I got her a glossy black anegre and maple chess board to go with it. I haven’t seen the pieces on the board yet, but I thought the combination on the Regency Chess website looked stunning. Here is that photo:

I’m excited to see that in person. We will soon put some furniture together to display various chess sets, so I will probably take some photos at that point.

I don’t have any chess sets of my own, but I love this 1952 Mordovian set that I’m holding on to until I can gift it to my stepson for Christmas:

And here is a Euro series woodtek set I have yet to gift my wife:

It’s woodtek, so it’s hardly going to be the most amazing set. But I wanted to gift my wife a plastic set that is more beautiful and heavier than the set she and her son currently play with. Doesn’t the set look beautiful on this blue board though?

How many am I allowed to post? I have many favourites.

Smyslova by Porat Jacobson

I’m not the OP, but I will speak for them; all of them please! =D

Wow, such a cool set! The king reminds me of the Mordovian sets with the flame finial, and the rooks have a bit of BFII flair. But those drop-shaped finials on the bishops are unusual! I’ve never seen that before. And wow, those knights have an alien presence!

The black and gold one is so cool

Thank you - I have actually made a previous forum post about this set here

Porat is such a skilled artist! To combine a Smyslov set with a Novgorod knight was a great idea.

That would inevitably bomb this thread. LOL. I start with my top 5.

Your Bavarian set! Please! @EfimLG47

Not quite sure, which one you mean...

Found it!

Ah ok, but that is not Bavarian, but Bohemian. That's what got me confused.

Ah my mistake! A beautiful set - I never tire of these pictures

Whoa, those bishops of the second set are incredible! They have an almost god-like presence. Akin to one of my Salvia divinorum-induced visions, anyway.

Is your Dutch set the one that inspired the reproduction below?

And what would this style be classified as?

What makes it Bohemian? It looks so much like the Česká Klubovka sets that feature bishops with opposite color heads, and rooks with brickwork textures.

Yes, same type of set. But I believe this to be a late 19th century set, when Czechia was still called Bohemia. So if you rather like to call it Česká, no problem. My main point was that it is not Bavarian.

Here is a close up view of the bishops.

I don't know my favorite Chess set, but my favorite piece is DA ROOK