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Maizelis’s SetMarch 9, 2025
Gulag Knights? A Tale of Two ValdaisFebruary 14, 2025
Soviet Checkers: Junior Partner in a Cultural RevolutionOctober 19, 2024
Hardin’s SetOctober 14, 2024
THE GULAG ‘KNIGHT’ OF MORDOVSKA (ADDENDUM)February 26, 2024
Urban Legend and the Not Very “Latvian” SetFebruary 19, 2024
Tsarist Staunton ChessmenAugust 17, 2023
Dukalov’s SetAugust 16, 2023
1935 Moscow International Chessmen with “Menchick Knights”June 16, 2023
Towering Giants of the Soviet Chessboard: The Ukrainian GM SetApril 20, 2023
1930s Poltava Artel Sport & Culture Bell-Bottom SetMarch 22, 2023
Holiday Eye Candy–A Gallery of “Baku” Sets of Artel DrevpromDecember 17, 2022
“Baku” Pieces from Leningrad Region’s Artel DrevpromDecember 16, 2022
Another Vsekokhudozhnik Upright Specimen EmergesDecember 15, 2022
Photos of the 1936 Third Moscow International TournamentNovember 29, 2022
Nikolai Krylenko, Political Chess, and the 1935 Second Moscow International TournamentNovember 28, 2022
Photos of the 1935 Second Moscow International TournamentNovember 27, 2022
A “Leningrad Schoolboy” Set in a Vsekokhudozhnik BoxNovember 14, 2022
The Ubiquitous ‘Soviet Upright’ Pieces of Artel VsekokhudozhnikNovember 13, 2022
“He’s an Egyptian!”November 6, 2022
Belarusian Mushroom ChessmenNovember 2, 2022
Artel Kultsport: Serving the Needs of Political ChessOctober 18, 2022
Mass-Produced State Factory Wooden Sets 1950-1991October 17, 2022
Mass-Produced Sets of Voenohot Factory No. 2October 16, 2022
The Gulag Sets of MordoviaOctober 15, 2022
Children of the Forced Labor Colony: The Berezovsky ChessboardsOctober 14, 2022
Pieces in a Larger Game: The Key to Understanding Soviet Chess SetsOctober 13, 2022
Chess Pieces of the 1933 Botvinnik-Flohr Match: An Ongoing EnigmaJuly 25, 2022
The Curious Case of Leningrad Factory No. 8 and the “1943 Leningrad” SetJune 26, 2022
Laughing Knight Chess SetJune 13, 2022
Artel Kultsport 1930s Ferocious Knight Chess SetJune 7, 2022
Proto-Tal Chess Pieces, c. 1940June 5, 2022
Young Kamsky and the 1941 Leningrad Championship Chess SetJune 2, 2022
1944 USSR Championship SetMay 28, 2022
c. 1940 Barrel Rook Tournament SetMay 26, 2022
Late 1930s Grandmaster Set: A Return to the Staunton StyleMay 23, 2022
The 1940 Soviet Staunton: A Counterrevolution in StyleMay 19, 2022
Four Styles of Grandmaster Chess Sets: GM4 PiecesMay 12, 2022
Four Styles of Grandmaster Chess Sets: The GM3 DesignMay 9, 2022
Four Styles of Grandmaster Chess Sets: GM2 “Bronstein” PiecesApril 25, 2022
Four Styles of Soviet Grandmaster Chess Sets: The GM1 Chess PiecesApril 23, 2022
“Revolutionary” Smyslov ChessmenApril 2, 2022
1920s-1930s Constructivist-Influenced Soviet Chess PiecesMarch 29, 2022
Rocket City Molodets SetMarch 9, 2022
From Tallinn to Tbilisi: The Evolution of the Tal Chess PiecesMarch 6, 2022
Aristocratic Olympians: The 1980 Minsk Olympic SetFebruary 23, 2022
Pushki on the Chessboard: The Soviet Cannon Rook SetFebruary 22, 2022
Working the Soviet Design Toolbox: Porat Jacobson’s “Smyslova” SetFebruary 11, 2022
Icons of the Soviet Chess Board: Botvinnik-Flohr II Chess PiecesJanuary 18, 2022
Chess Sets of Major Tsarist and Soviet Events, 1909-1941January 3, 2022
The Legacy of Arlindo VieiraDecember 9, 2021

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