Naef Bauhaus Chess Set by Josef Hartwig Love chess? Love modernist design? You really do need this Naef Bauhaus Chess Set by Josef Hartwig. Yes, straight out of Bauhaus school, it was designed by Hartwig back in 1923, replacing...
Texas Tech wins competition with world’s smallest chess set
https://chessdailynews.com/spice-1mm-chess-set/ https://chessdailynews.com/world-smallest-chess-set/ Texas Tech Wins Design Competition with Microscopic Chess SetJune 16th, 2010 by Leslie Cranford (PhysOrg.com) — World’s smallest chess set and a microbarbershop win big at Sandia. The world’s smallest chess board, about the diameter of four...
Lego Chess Set
Lego Chess Set made by Robert Chaplin http://rchaplin.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html#4228990585928043007 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Chess set inspired by ‘Alice in Wonderland’
Cape Coral woman crafts chess set inspired by ‘Alice in Wonderland’By Dayna Harpster • March 4, 2010 1:10 A.M. — As an artist for gifts sold through the Franklin Mint, Jacqueline Bardner Smith had to accept that her vision...
Tracey Emin’s “Travelling Chess Set”
Tracey Emin’s “Travelling Chess Set” (2008) was acquired for £25,000. LONDON.- The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester has acquired an original new work by British artist Tracey Emin with help from The Art Fund, the UK’s leading...
Vacuum tubes populate unique chessboard
Vacuum tubes populate unique chessboard This must be one of the coolest chess sets ever made. Artist Paul Fryer used 32 vacuum tubes to create “Chess Set for Tesla,” with each tube sporting an icon up top showing which...
$6 million Michael Jackson chess set
…While making the 2003 documentary “Living With Michael Jackson,” reporter Martin Bashir saw him shell out $6 million for marble chess sets… Source: http://www.wwd.com Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Alice through the Looking Glass
A Chess Set inspired by the novel ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’ where the pieces magically turn transparent when they touch the board. In ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’ by Lewis Carroll, Alice falls through a mirror and on...
A tiny little one
This is one of the many chess sets which is owned by one of the collectors in Texas. In fact, his sets are being displayed in his hometown museum. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
One of my chess sets
Since I joined the CCI (Chess Collectors International) last week, I began looking into a number of rare or unique chess sets. This is one of my sets. Even though it is not that large, it is quite heavy....