German Chess Sets-Deutsche Schachfiguren

On YouTube, my new vídeo about German Chess Pieces (17 sets-20m).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjqjxovEiN4

I love German Chess Pieces. Because of its simplicity, its practical work in chess board, and even the aesthetics stripped that make them beautiful. Some are landmarks of chess pieces history, like the Uhlig ( I haven’t oneunfortunately ) but also the Bohemia or Lepzig sets.

All players that play in German Opens or chess collectors know some of the video sets, and one has a very particular historical significance (The Deutsche Bundesform).

I hope you enjoy.

In this video, eighteen german sets , well …seventeen, because one is an Indian version-inspiration in Bohemia, a good one indeed!

and a beautiful Indian  inspiration

Here comes BurnAmos!

Thanks for the line-up. They look great.

like those sets also a lot

great looking sets. I have a few of those as well (I lived in Germany for a long time and grew up playing Chess w/ some of those sets...)

Here's another one - I think it's German, not sure:

Beautiful chess pieces. Haunting music. Excellent video and photos.

Three German sets from my collection. The first is perhaps from the twenties or thirties.

Set 2: A Bohemia with Dogface Knights...

The third set is interesting. Its box is marked "Made in Germany," and it was imported by FAO Schwarz, a US importer of German toys, in the mid-fifties. But the design is clearly Lardy. My conclusion is that it is a Lardy, or proto-Lardy, made under license by Bohemia.

Thanks for sharing guys. Does anyone know about, the general sets used in either British, or French coffee, tea houses, or pubs. Jonas has a video on YT, he shows various knight designs. Anyhow he showed a knight that was carved from a single piece of wood, its over a 100 years old. Its in the Staunton style, but wasn't by Jaques, however it was exceptionally carved.

There was another set I was interested in finding out about also, it was in the old show Highlander, the series. It was a gothic set in nature. It looked wooden, and the knights were also carved from a single piece of wood. Also the horse was rearing, with a knight on it. 

I have never seen another set like it. It was very detailed, and was not Isle of Lewis style. I am aware of the Gothic set done in plastic, in the 60's, it looked kind of like that, but was wooden. Maybe it was fake wood though, it only showed the set one, or two episodes. Thanks for any info in advance.

the Bohemian set in a match between  J.Timman and Z.Polgar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKY339qHnK8 at 12:17

My German set with box clasp "hint"  

That's the Bundesform set. It was designed specifically for the 1936 Olympiad in Munich. By this time, the Nazis had purged the national and regional chess organizations of Jews, and installed as its head a high official in the SA, Otto Zander. They wanted a set to replace the ubiquitous Staunton design, which they viewed as an expression of English decadance and degeneracy.

Otto Zander observing a game at the Munich Olympiad in full SA regalia.

Otto Zander in full SA regalia?...merely a shirt and tie.Germans may have wanted to replace the Staunton design with ones of their own.I hardly think they viewed the Staunton design as an expression of English decadence and degeneracy,for the simple reason that  Germans admired Britain.It is well known that Hitler often expressed his admiration of Britain.

The 1936 Berlin Olympics were a runaway success.In his autobiography,American track and field star Jesse Owens was fullsome in his praise of the games;German people and Hitler.He was adored by the local people and he could move about freely to wherever he wanted to go...something he could not do in the USA.Owens said he would never forget the jubilation of Hitler shaking his hand and congratulating him on his wins.He was most disappointed that he did not receive any congratulations from Roosevelt upon returning home to the US.He was required to use the side entrance of the Waldoff-Astoria Hotel for the official Olympic team  post games reception and then resume life as a second rate (negro) citizen.

the german sets are beautiful, I did not realize how simplicity really elevates a set when balanced.  Pardon my ignorance, so when the current FIDE championship set featuring "german knights" is only the reference to the knight itself and not the other pieces?

There is a foto of Capablanca playing with a very similar set.

amazing chess sets...

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I love that set, Manuel! CB knocked it off, didn't they? And of course it's there on Jonas's board!