Looks at Rooks

The Knights on Parade thread is still very much active but there are other pieces. Like this rook from the RCM Soviet Russian 1960´s set. A tall and elegant design.

cool!

Among my favourites are the RCM Botvinnik-Flohr I (-33) replicas.

Nice set of rooks. That chess set is on my short list of chess set to buy.

I think you´ll be pleased.

I don't see any rooks there, I see 6 queens though

Presuming Kings are on c7 and h7, whose move?

You are right.. desperate's vaudeville rooks from #2 and #7, I was thinking, that's great, I always envision the groups of chess pieces as theatre circus troupes.. but where did I see that before, upside down rooks.. Oh yeah, let me take a photo of 'promoted' rooks!

I searched for '6 queens' and, very kindly, Gotham Chess had treated one such game, and with the players' names from the video I found it and can share the link to that memorable game:

IM Emil Szalanczy vs. WFM Thi Mai Hung Nguyen 1/2-1/2 (Budapest, '1st Saturday', October 2009)

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1699399

The old set that came with no extra queens was simply called 'Russian Uprights' by great researcher on Russian chessmen Chuck Grau, when he distinguished them from pieces named 'Averbakh' in an entry on his website. The pieces would be from around 1940.

It is black to move after 64. Nb6-d5, but it is no puzzle position, only picturesque. 6 queens were on board for 13 half-moves.

@ungewichtet danke schon, nice game, amazing it ended a draw with so much power on the board, but it shows the skill of the players - how not to lose against 3 queens!

Back to the topic, here's a couple of rooks, age unknown:

The giveaway that these fine men are Rooks is the shape of their sombreros! These are from a ridiculous, yet fantastic chess set I collected some time ago. See Mexican Mirth.

This rook is simple, beautiful and different to what I have seen before or at least, I do not have the experience to place it. To what set does it belong?