Four Styles of Soviet Grandmaster Chess Sets: The GM1 Chess Pieces – Soviet and Late Tsarist Chess Sets

Today, I want to focus on one narrow topic raised by a contributor to Shakmatnyye Kollektsionery: what is a Grandmaster set and what are the differences between the different types of Grandmaster sets mentioned by collectors? c. 1960 Grandmaster 1 Pieces. Chuck Grau Collection, photo. A Grandmaster, or Grossmeister set is most generally a set that was used…

Why Soviet Sets? – Soviet and Late Tsarist Chess Sets

Soviet and Late Tsarist Chess Sets – Copyright 2023 Charles W. Grau

Rufus et Albus; Soviet 'Grandmaster IV' (GM4) Cold War Chess Set, c.1980

Soviet Era Grandmaster Supreme Homage set - Chess Forums

Young Kamsky and the 1941 Leningrad Championship Chess Set – Soviet and Late Tsarist Chess Sets

1920s-1930s Constructivist-Influenced Soviet Chess Pieces – Soviet and Late Tsarist Chess Sets

3.7 Soviet Grandmaster Supreme Boxwood Chess Set – royalchessmall

Aristocratic Olympians: The 1980 Minsk Olympic Set – Soviet and Late Tsarist Chess Sets

Rufus et Albus; Soviet 'Grandmaster IV' (GM4) Cold War Chess Set, c.1980

Four Styles of Soviet Grandmaster Chess Sets: The GM1 Chess Pieces – Soviet and Late Tsarist Chess Sets

Four Styles of Grandmaster Chess Sets: GM4 Pieces – Soviet and Late Tsarist Chess Sets

Antique Soviet Wooden Grandmaster Chess set. Russian chess

Children of the Gulag: The Berezovsky Chessmen – Soviet and Late Tsarist Chess Sets