PREMIUM CHESS PIECES
This
category has wide range of wooden chess pieces in Staunton Pattern. All
are High end chess sets. All chess pieces are hand carved and has
superb quality. All chess pieces are weighted and felted with billiards
cloth pads. Every design can be made in Different wood combination
depending on your choice/ requirement.The White pieces are made from
Quality Indian Boxwood. The Staunton chess pieces are the standard
pattern for chess sets used in all world chess federations and many
others championships. The King was characterizing by a crown and a
coronet signified the Queen. The design of the knight came from the
Greek horse of the Eglin Marbles. Howard Staunton commissioned
Nathaniel Cook in 1849 to design the Chess set which is used in all
international traditional Chess competitions. The height of the King in
the Staunton set is usually about 9.5 cm (3.75 inches) and the boards
have 5.5cm, (2.25 inch) cells. On March 1, 1849 Nathaniel Cook first
registered the pattern. Prior to that, the pieces most commonly used
were called the St. George design chessmen, followed by the Calvert,
Edinburgh, Lund and Merrifield designs. Cook registered his wooden
chess pattern under the Ornamental Designs Act of 1842. Howard Staunton
was a Europe leading player. The Staunton knight represented the
powerful ideas associated with the horses of the Elgin Marbles. The
Knights as a symbol have come to represent the virtues of gallantry
with their mane and tail with refinement sculpted and flowing in the
breeze. Their features have been delicately accented in the Staunton
chess set. Phidias an architect, painter, designer and mathematician
was the sculptor who worked on the Parthenon. Parthenon of Athens is
considered as Masterpiece ( "Elgin Marble" ) and Phidias is considered
the greatest sculptor of Ancient Greece.
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