Author: Steve B
Date: 06:53:40 07/04/05
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On July 04, 2005 at 09:16:26, Steven Edwards wrote: >On July 03, 2005 at 17:46:45, Dick Schneiders wrote: > >>At that price, those have to be Lardy copies and not original. Also, don't the >>original Lardy sets have beads for the eyes of the knights? My 1940's >>rosewood/olivewood Lardy set has them and I thought they all did. > >http://www.thechessroom.com/frchset1.html > >I have a set of these including a wooden box. I purchased them back sometime >around 1980 from the USCF, although I don't recall the price. They are indeed >the originals and were advertised as being used in the Nice Olympiad (1974, I >think). The knights do not have porcelain eyes. I added felt to the interior >of the could-be-larger box to help prevent damage to the pieces. > >I've used the set in a number of events including ACM 1994 if I recall >correctly. It's my favorite set and, alas, not for sale. i think Charles is looking for a set of pieces made to work with the Elite AG chess computers and therefore had magnets in their bases Steve
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