You should see if Chessbazaar can duplicate this set. I know I would definitely buy one...
Rarity ... Wanted Brazilian chess set
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Jun 22, 2016
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Alex, agradecido do coração pela informação.
A partir do que informou, bastou ir ao site da Federação Bahiana de Xadrez, fazer uma pesquisa de fotos, e no ano de 2003 no memorial Messias Lemos Lopes, lá aparecem as peças. Só que este Memorial foi em 2003.
Não sei se as Peças do Clube de Xadrez da Bahia foram realizadas pelo mesmo fabricante que fez as do Interzonal Petropolis 1973, ou se estas foram feitas segundo um modelo que já exisatia na Bahia na época das fotos que estão no link ( infelizmente não se conseguem ver as fotos).
It was enough to go to the website of Bahia Chess Federation, do a photo search, and in 2003 the memorial Messias Lemos Lopes, there appear the pieces. Only that this Memorial was in 2003.
I do not know if the Bahia Chess Club pieces were made by the same manufacturer that made the Interzonal Petropolis 1973 or if they were made according to a model that already exisatia in Bahia at the time of the photos that are in the link (unfortunately not able to see the pieces in the photos).
More two Photos og Mecking with this set:
I have a Petropolis Interzonal 1973 Chess Set for sale. For a contatct, e-mail me: eucaliptico@gmail.com
Chess bazaar's offering a reproduction with interchangeable finials. A nice looking very affordable set if a reproduction is in your consideration for purchase.
They are still out there. I was lucky to find this Original Braganca with box on that auction site 
about two years ago ...
QtoQlevel3 wrote:
Chess bazaar's offering a reproduction with interchangeable finials. A nice looking very affordable set if a reproduction is in your consideration for purchase.
https://www.chessbazaar.com/reproduced-1973-petropolis-1979-interzonal-tournament-chess-set-in-sheesham-box-wood-4-3-4-5-king.html
No offence to Chess Bazaar, but that reproduction is rather a far cry from the original if you ask me. The original has a proportional beauty which is entirely lacking in the CB set. As a rule, I refrain from bashing producers' reproductions, because they are helping to preserve and important part of our collective chess heritage, but this is substandard.
Feb 11, 2019
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I spend a lot of time in different cities in Brazil searching for Brazilian chess sets ( Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba). The best set I bought was an European set, one he best in my collection. I found an interesting Brazilian set in a shop in Rio, but unfortunately the shop was close. I will probably go to Brazil this year again.
The ChessBazaar reproduction is not even close... I have an original set:
Keres doesn't look well in that photo does he?
Hello, DanielJorgeFerreira!
Can you post more photos of this set at various angles, mainly from the knight?
I am trying to reproduce this set. Thank you!
The set is historically interesting, but I don’t like it very much, especially the knights are quite weird
In my last trip to Brazil I bought an interesting set done by Bonatto & CIA. I found it in a shop in Curitiba, Parana, South Brazil. It was the last sets available there. Who told me about this set was a guy who was making high quality sets in the past. His family stopped the production several years ago.
brasileirosim wrote:
In my last trip to Brazil I bought an interesting set done by Bonatto & CIA. I found it in a shop in Curitiba, Parana, South Brazil. It was the last sets available there. Who told me about this set was a guy who was making high quality sets in the past. His family stopped the production several years ago.
Jun 30, 2020
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forked_again wrote:
The knights look like Lions!
Or Schnauzers...Strangely, the only pieces of this set I like are the pawns. (and that's unusual) I much prefer Ronbo710s version. But to each his own.
Yes, the pawns are okay.
Aug 17, 2023
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DanielFerreiraJorge escreveu:
The ChessBazaar reproduction is not even close... I have an original set:
Daniel, do you know the name of the maker of the Petropolis '73 set? I've seen similar sets circulating in Brazil, I believe they're not the original '73 Interzonal set, but it's certainly from the same maker. I'd like to find out the name.
Can you still buy a brazilian chess set Amazónia or Bragança? With great difficulty, some money, yes!
But the pieces that I will look for years? No, or maybe… never!
They are Brazilian chess pieces and were used in Petrópolis Interzonal 1973.
I've never seen a decent pictures of these chess pieces, and the pictures that exist of this interzonal are not famous, but through them, we can see the curious features of the Knights and Bishops and the elegance of pawns.. A simple, direct, chess set for the competition and that perhaps it was only done to the Interzonal.
Maybe some Petropolis Chess Club has a survivor of this magnificent Staunton.
A rarity ever seen anywhere. Another set that perhaps deserved a replica as it should be.