Author: Dan Honeycutt
Date: 17:24:30 04/01/05
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On April 01, 2005 at 17:08:51, Dan Honeycutt wrote: >On April 01, 2005 at 14:27:22, Robert C. Maddox wrote: > >>On April 01, 2005 at 07:24:36, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >> >>>Is this the same set? >>> >>>http://www.chessusa.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?page=6/65-907.jpg&item=65-907 >> >>Nah, the auctioned set is an older Drueke that some of us old geezer types >>remember fondly. > >I'm pretty sure I have a set, thanks to your post I'll go dig in the closet when >I get home from work. The pieces have sort of a squatty elegance that's hard to >describe - the ebay photo doesn't do them justice. > >Another old geezer >Dan H. I always think that people who answer their own posts have one or two screws loose but anyway ... I did get home and found my set. Same as those in the auction, end of the box says No. 35, Simulated Wood Chessmen, Drueke Games, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49504. Mine were bought around 1973 and are in mint condition; in fact I don't know that that they have ever been used. I remember going to a tournament with my cheap plastic set and one of my opponents asked "What educational institution did you steal those from?" To that I replied "You don't like my pieces, we'll play with yours." (He brought none.) I figured he was just trying to get in a psychological jab before the game but I had to admit that my pieces were pretty sad - one of those sets that clubs and schools buy in lots of 100 and all beat up to boot. So I ordered the Drueke set. When the pieces arrived I liked them so well that I refused to take them to tournaments for fear I would lose them. So I put the Drueke set away and went on using my 'institutional' set. Dan H.
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