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Re: Excellent tiny wood chess set
Reply #4 - 05/15/16 at 15:30:59
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Manopoulos in Greece makes a good small European-style set (like the DGT "timeless" sets but smaller). Nice level of detail. There is an even smaller magnetic version.
  
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Re: Excellent tiny wood chess set
Reply #3 - 05/14/16 at 18:28:52
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dunne wrote on 05/14/16 at 11:53:15:
Is that link dead for anyone else?

The thread is 2.5 years old, so it's no wonder. 

david is a spammer who posted a bunch of random one-liners to get access to posting links (which you can only do after 5+ posts), and bumped this thread in the process.
  
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Re: Excellent tiny wood chess set
Reply #2 - 05/14/16 at 11:53:15
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Is that link dead for anyone else?

I picked up a grand little set on ebay a few years ago.  It's what the Germans call a "Steckschach" i.e. there are sockets into which the pieces are plugged.  Its 4.5" square, so very handy for accompanying reading in an armchair.  I tried to attach a picture, but it wouldn't let me, and I'm new so I can't post links yet.  But there is one on my website, just use the URL you'll find on my profile plus the filename
steckschach2.jpg .

The bad news is that this little sets were made in the DDR, so you can only get them second-hand.
  
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Re: Excellent tiny wood chess set
Reply #1 - 12/03/14 at 18:51:21
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That looks really good. Thanks for the info. Really tempting for Christmas!
  
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Excellent tiny wood chess set
11/28/14 at 22:28:58
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I like having my big wood chess set out on my table at home, but it does consume a lot of space which can be a problem. And of course it is immobile.

Recently I risked $30 to buy a tiny wood chess set, and I am very glad I did. Here is the Http URL for interested buyers:

Tiny Wood Chess Set

http://shop.chesscafe.com/Passport-Magnetic-Travel-Chess-Set-EQP1249.htm

This is not a "travel" chess set because 'travel' means the position can be maintained on the board even when the set & board are packed into a suitcase. Personally I have never needed a 'travel' chess set, and my guess is that only the occasional Correspondence Chess player would need a 'travel' chess set.
Instead...

I need a 'mobile' chess set, one that I can easily carry from room to room in my house while maintaining the position on the board. And of course a 'mobile' chess set consumes only a tiny amount of space on my table.

The above linked-to tiny wood chess set is an excellent 'mobile' set, which has a more elegant feel than do plastic sets. The pieces cannot be "weighted" of course, so the piece bases have magnets. Fine.

I wonder by the chess board cannot be the magnet, so that the pieces do not need to have magnets. I dislike how the magnetized bases make the pieces cling together, because it forces me to use two hands (or otherwise struggle) to pick up a single piece from a pile of the pieces.

The eight squares of say row_'8' combine for a length of 6 inches (152mm). However, the physical board adds extra space for captured pieces, extending the side length to 7.5 inches (191mm). In the dimension of column_'a' there is almost no added space.

Each individual square is 19mm on each side.

The diameter of the king's base is 13mm. The height of the king is 25mm.
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