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• Fierce Knight Wooden Premier Chess Set Pieces 3" & 16" Folding Board/Box Acacia Wood / Maple
• Rio Staunton Biggie Knight Acacia Wood 4" Chess Set - 21" Folding Chess Board with Algebraic Notation - 2 Extra Queens
• Mass-Produced 20th Century Staunton Sets
• Chess Board/Drawer + 3" Galaxy Staunton Chess Set Rosewood/Boxwood with 2 Extra Queens, 4 Extra Knights & 2 Extra Pawns

The city served as one of three hosts for the 1886 World Chess Championship—the first ever held. Wilhelm Steinitz (U.S. Chess Hall of Fame, 1986; World Chess Hall of Fame, 2001) faced off against Johannes Zukertort (World Chess Hall of Fame, 2016). The match took place in three American cities—New York (January 11-20), Saint Louis (February 3-10), and New Orleans (February 26-March 24). Steinitz, who lost four of the first five games in New York, won three of the four games played in Saint Louis, setting the stage for his ultimate victory in the match. In this image the players can be seen using Staunton chessmen. Based on Regent Street in London, Edwards & Jones was a manufacturer of ivory and tortoiseshell products.

Fierce Knight Wooden Premier Chess Set Pieces 3" & 16" Folding Board/Box Acacia Wood / Maple

Between 1986 and 2010, he owned one of the world’s largest collections of Jaques and Staunton-style sets, which numbered well over 1,000 sets. He has been a serious collector and researcher into antique playing chess sets, their design and history since 1986. His serious research, which started in 1989, was centered on Jaques and other Staunton chessmen and quickly expanded into Pre-Staunton playing sets.

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Rio Staunton Biggie Knight Acacia Wood 4" Chess Set - 21" Folding Chess Board with Algebraic Notation - 2 Extra Queens

Howard Staunton never claimed to be the designer/creator of the chess piece pattern that bears his name. The Staunton chess pattern was patented in March 1849 by Nathaniel Cooke (misspelled as “Cook” on the patent document). Cooke was the business partner and brother-in-law of Herbert Ingram, the primary founder of the ILN.

Mass-Produced 20th Century Staunton Sets

It was so nice, several months later I ordered another set for me. With over 300 different type of models which are never offered on any other website. All sets are made of natural wood and no veneers are used. Well, ChessUSA used to be outstanding in terms of customer service.

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This did help preserve the labels since they were not placed directly on a wear surface. First, having been a serious tournament chess player, my interest was in practical playing sets—the Staunton design in particular. What I had discovered very early in my collecting career was that there was woefully little information on the Staunton chessmen and what did exist was mostly incorrect. So, I decided to pull together as much information on the Staunton pattern as I could. One of the early highlights in Saint Louis’ chess history was also a landmark event in United States and global chess history.

The Staunton Standard: Evolution of the Modern Chess Set

The pieces were tournament size, and I made good use of them in the years that followed. Thanks everyone for posting good info about buying chess sets. My chess set from chessbazaar and they did a pretty neat job of packing and dispatching the set. Ordered the items on Monday morning and the set was with me on Wednesday evening. The cardboard box in which the board came was torn and crushed but thankfully my board was safe. The pieces were individually wrapped with due care and I had to spend quite a lot of time unwrapping the pieces.

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Many of the changes were made to improve the robustness of the chessmen. Among the other changes made were the relative proportions of the chessmen. Boxes housing sets produced after 1895 or so were fitted with a partition which separated the white pieces from the black. A longtime chess fan and competitor, Jon Crumiller purchased his first antique chess set online in 2002. This acquisition quickly sparked a passion, and Jon’s collection of antique sets now numbers over 600.

His Staunton sets are known for their large aggressive knights, as well as other characteristic features such as domed queens and red felt on the bottoms of the pieces. Golden Castle Co. began producing chess sets in Japan in the years after World War II. “The Craftsman” was one of five sizes of Staunton chessmen the company made. They were patterned after Jaques of London’s Marshall pattern sets (a reproduction of the latter set is also on view in this exhibition). Golden Castle Co. advertised their sets in American chess periodicals Chess Life and Chess Review.

Chess Board/Drawer + 3" Galaxy Staunton Chess Set Rosewood/Boxwood with 2 Extra Queens, 4 Extra Knights & 2 Extra Pawns

To accommodate this new development, Jaques and other game equipment firms began to market the two-faced chess clock. These early labels were numbered sequentially, so set #120 could be an 8.9 cm wooden set in a small mahogany box, while set #121 might be a large ivory set in a large Carton Pierre casket. Little known is the fact that the earliest labels also have the Jaques London imprint invisibly embossed into the label. The same tool used to mark the bases of their kings was used to make this imprint. This little-known fact alone should be worth the time you have taken to read this article.

I recently became interested in chess, and decided I wanted to buy a decent wooden chess set. I shopped around, and looked on these forums for suggestions. I came accross House of Staunton (google for their website if you are unfamiliar with them) and fell in love with their sets.

Along with the box contents and registration number (58,607 5&6 Vict. Cap. 100.), each label bore an original (not a facsimile) signature of Howard Staunton and the production number of the set, also in Staunton’s hand. Based on certain observations, I believe Staunton hand-signed and numbered 999 labels (or signed as many as he could until hampered by writer’s cramp). It's a shame, because it looks like they have decent products, but maybe its only the really high end stuff. All I know is if they can't get the "budget friendly" items right, I would be concerned buying a $700 - $2k set without seeing it first. I would have loved to buy one of those next year, but sadly they let me down this time and for good.

For over half a century, Bisguier regularly gave lectures and played simultaneous exhibitions at chess clubs, schools, and prisons around the United States. Before he died in April 2017, Arthur Bisguier was the world’s oldest active GM. Bisguier was an active chess player for most of his life, after teaching himself chess, he earned the title of International Master in his early 20s. In 1950, at the age of 28 he achieved the title of Grandmaster.

Portions of Crumiller’s collections have been highlighted in two previous WCHOF exhibitions. Not only interested in acquiring artifacts but also learning about their origins and histories, Jon conducts research on the evolution of chess set styles, usage, and manufacturing. He shares this information with the global community of collectors, including his fellow enthusiasts in Chess Collectors International. Jon provides curious chess devotees from around the world with beautiful photos of his stunning collection as well as some of the fruits of his meticulous research through his website

The “Marbles” were “expropriated” in 1816 by Sir Thomas Bruce and brought to London. They can be viewed today at The British Museum in London. The scope of his collecting has also grown to include chess boards, timers, and chess miscellanea, mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries.