The Chess Store sells the highest quality wood chess sets in the world. Our chess sets come from Amritsar, India where all of the leading manufacturer of fine wood chess sets
Unfortunately, there are a lot of very poor quality chess sets being sold today, especially on Amazon and Ebay. The junk chess sets seem endless and the sellers of these sets sell them reasonably cheap in order to compete against the .
Our chess sets are truly heirloom quality and will be year after year for generations. We include an authenticity card in each chess set that tells what the chess set is, size, type of wood, and the year it was made.
Nearly all of our Staunton wood chessmen come standard with two additional queens for pawn promotion so players don't need to . We were the first chess set company to do this and though it's a little more expensive to provide two more queens, most chess players have come to expect it in a chess set.
Some of our chess se are exclusive designs that we have created. Many of our designs have been copied over the years .
So what makes a high quality wood chess set? There are several importan.
1. The design including the profile, shape of each piece, special features, and of course th knight,
2. The quality of the wood is of utmost importance.
3. Consistency of the dimensions from piece to piece. Chess pieces are turned by hand on lathe one piece at a time using a variety of different cutting tools to create the different shapes and profile. It takes a high degree of skill to turn each piece to the same size diameter and height while maintaining the . Replc and
4. Detail work
5. After the pieces are turned each piece must be sanded to remove all turning marks/lines. After sanding the pieces are hand polished one piece at at a time to achieve a beautiful, rich luster.
6. Straightness (do the piece
Our pieces come packaged in a white mailer cardboard box. Pieces are packaged as necessary for protection and the more detailed pi are wrapped in foam or bubble material. We offer several upgrades to our standard white box including aoru and different wood boxes.
We have a full time inspector that does nothing but inspect our chess sets, one piece at a time. Most companies do not go to this expense to make sure that ev.