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2025

Maizelis’s Setoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2025
Gulag Knights? A Tale of Two Valdaisoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2025

2024

Soviet Checkers: Junior Partner in a Cultural Revolutionoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2024
Hardin’s Setoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2024
THE GULAG ‘KNIGHT’ OF MORDOVSKA (ADDENDUM)original ↗
26 Feb 2024
Urban Legend and the Not Very “Latvian” Setoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2024

2023

Tsarist Staunton Chessmenoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2023
Dukalov’s Setoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2023
1935 Moscow International Chessmen with “Menchick Knights”original ↗
16 Jun 2023
Towering Giants of the Soviet Chessboard: The Ukrainian GM Setoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2023
1930s Poltava Artel Sport & Culture Bell-Bottom Setoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2023

2022

Holiday Eye Candy–A Gallery of “Baku” Sets of Artel Drevpromoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2022
“Baku” Pieces from Leningrad Region’s Artel Drevpromoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2022
Another Vsekokhudozhnik Upright Specimen Emergesoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2022
Photos of the 1936 Third Moscow International Tournamentoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2022
Nikolai Krylenko, Political Chess, and the 1935 Second Moscow International Tournamentoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2022
Photos of the 1935 Second Moscow International Tournamentoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2022
A “Leningrad Schoolboy” Set in a Vsekokhudozhnik Boxoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2022
The Ubiquitous ‘Soviet Upright’ Pieces of Artel Vsekokhudozhnikoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2022
“He’s an Egyptian!”original ↗
6 Nov 2022
Belarusian Mushroom Chessmenoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2022
Artel Kultsport: Serving the Needs of Political Chessoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2022
Mass-Produced State Factory Wooden Sets 1950-1991original ↗
17 Oct 2022
Mass-Produced Sets of Voenohot Factory No. 2original ↗
16 Oct 2022
The Gulag Sets of Mordoviaoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2022
Children of the Forced Labor Colony: The Berezovsky Chessboardsoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2022
Pieces in a Larger Game: The Key to Understanding Soviet Chess Setsoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2022
Chess Pieces of the 1933 Botvinnik-Flohr Match: An Ongoing Enigmaoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2022
The Curious Case of Leningrad Factory No. 8 and the “1943 Leningrad” Setoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2022
Laughing Knight Chess Setoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2022
Artel Kultsport 1930s Ferocious Knight Chess Setoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2022
Proto-Tal Chess Pieces, c. 1940original ↗
5 Jun 2022
Young Kamsky and the 1941 Leningrad Championship Chess Setoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2022
1944 USSR Championship Setoriginal ↗
29 May 2022
c. 1940 Barrel Rook Tournament Setoriginal ↗
26 May 2022
Late 1930s Grandmaster Set: A Return to the Staunton Styleoriginal ↗
23 May 2022
The 1940 Soviet Staunton: A Counterrevolution in Styleoriginal ↗
19 May 2022
Four Styles of Grandmaster Chess Sets: GM4 Piecesoriginal ↗
12 May 2022
Four Styles of Grandmaster Chess Sets: The GM3 Designoriginal ↗
9 May 2022
Four Styles of Grandmaster Chess Sets: GM2 “Bronstein” Piecesoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2022
Four Styles of Soviet Grandmaster Chess Sets: The GM1 Chess Piecesoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2022
“Revolutionary” Smyslov Chessmenoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2022
1920s-1930s Constructivist-Influenced Soviet Chess Piecesoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2022
Rocket City Molodets Setoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2022
From Tallinn to Tbilisi: The Evolution of the Tal Chess Piecesoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2022
Aristocratic Olympians: The 1980 Minsk Olympic Setoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2022
Pushki on the Chessboard: The Soviet Cannon Rook Setoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2022
Working the Soviet Design Toolbox: Porat Jacobson’s “Smyslova” Setoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2022
Icons of the Soviet Chess Board: Botvinnik-Flohr II Chess Piecesoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2022
Chess Sets of Major Tsarist and Soviet Events, 1909-1941original ↗
3 Jan 2022

2021

The Legacy of Arlindo Vieiraoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2021