What is so famous about this chess set? Can you name some of the famous people who have used this set?
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Bobby Fischer…
good guess, but not that world champion… in fact there have been a lot of interesting players using this set – i hope i didn’t spoil the contest, but maybe if the set was very active during the 1990’s the person who guessed most users of it should win the star prize!
ok susan?
🙂
ps: what is this /type/ of set called in Russia?
Phil
Is it a set from the Pioneer’s club?
good guess but no prize!- the set featured among other places at Novgorod
this is -lol- a very difficult problem to solve or answer correctly, and my friend susan has maybe posed you an impossible task in identifying whoever played with it
but very many great did
i will send any good response a DVD from Maurice Ashley on speed chess as a prize – susan will send one of her husband’s ties
ROFL
but seriously, this is a set play with by the Greats of chess, and in Russian this style of set has a name, though the main question for this quiz is what names played with it?
cordially, phil
I’ll guess Alekhine, since it looks like an old East European set.
I would place it in the Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal area 🙂
note the clue, early 1990’s, especially 93, 94, 95 – and LOTS of top players used these pieces – so not Alekhine nor Botvinnik, Tal etc. but a more modern group. Phil