Staunton set

Recently, my collection of created chess sets and/or boards expanded a bit into vintage chess sets in the form of a Mexican pulpit set. That made me think that my collection would always have a glaring hole if it didn't contain at least one set of Staunton chess pieces. eBay is your friend, and I soon found what I felt was a very nice looking set of weighted pieces; I especially like the knights of this set! It didn't come with a board, but I got a nice carved wooden board off eBay, which complemented the pieces pretty well in terms of size as well as general character.

The eBay listing gave no information on where and when the set was made, so I don't know whether it is truly vintage.

Chess computers

You could argue that the two chess computers I bought long ago also qualify as 'chess sets', so I ought to mentally add them to the collection.

First chess computer I bought is a Saitek Kasparov Simultano.

Got it about 30 years ago, when I still lived in the Netherlands. It still works fine!

The second chess computer I got shortly after I came to Britain; don't remember exactly when, but it must have been at least 20 years ago. This is a Novag Chinese Chess computer, so programmed to play Xiangqi.

Like its FIDE chess playing sibling, it still works flawlessly.












I guess that specialised chess computers like these are pretty much redundant nowadays, with so much chess-playing software available both off-line and on-line. So they add a bit more 'vintage' to the collection, maybe?