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The Cooke Series Luxury Chess Pieces - 3.625" King - House Of Staunton
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- Опубликовано: 14 авг 2024
- Cooke series chess set has been something I wanted to buy since the beginning. Although only 3.625 inches, this Luxury series chess set is solid and really well built. I am thrilled I now have a Cooke Chess set in my collection. Be sure to let me know what you think about the close up footage, my first time filming that close, hoping to improve. Have a great weekend everyone and blessed holidays!
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I really appreciate the close-ups to the pieces. Really brings up the beauty of the details. This is a very beautiful set.
I have a plastic Cooke set, and I agree that the knights are great. But this wooden set takes the cake.
Thanks a lot! You don't realize until you actually try to do close ups that it's tricky and for some reason hands always shake a little because you try to hold things as still as possible. I am glad you enjoyed the video!
Really, really beautiful chess set and the board is also spectacular! Such a pleasant sight overall.
Amazing chess pieces. Great board. I hope you become the premier chess set reviewer on RUclips. Since you are the pioneer reviewer, maybe looking at those mainstream reviewers of watches with their equipment, show format and camera equipment would be something.
Thanks a lot!! Figuring out how to change and improve the filming is definitely tricky!
I love your videos don't change anything
Thank you so much!
One huge fault is the width of the head from above, the Cooke and the Morphy styles had way thinner profiles , like half the thickness of these knights.
Interesting! I've been wanting to get the Morphy Chess Set for a long time, specifically this one:
www.houseofstaunton.com/the-1850-morphy-vintage-series-luxury-chess-pieces-4-4-king.html
But, the prices of some of these sets preclude me from purchasing them on a whim, at least for the time being.
Anyone interested in my Cooke’s 1849 Staunton original set! Unrestored as condition is particularly good. I’d be glad to show pics
Thank you Al. These wonderful pieces are almost exact repro's of Nathaniel Cooke's 1849 Staunton originals - aesthetics, relative proportions, detailing and so-on - albeit with the sole exception of the pawn's slightly over-wide collar (as you pointed out). The bishop's mitre in this design is deeply cleft, as in a real episcopal mitre, unlike the simple slit which was obviously all about saving on manufacturing costs (it was not a decision based on artistic appeal, that's for sure). Some of the knights one sees are absurdly crude by comparison with Cooke's, and for the same reasons. Long live the extremely beautiful Cooke knights, which are based on the horses depicted in the frieze of the Parthenon in Athens (now in the "Elgin Marbles" collection in the British Museum). I've seen them close up, and they send a shiver down one's spine - especially in view of the fact that they were sculpted by the Greek artist Phidias in the 5th Century BC - 2500 years ago.
Hi Alex,
Thanks again for a detailed description of your latest chess pieces. You did a good job explaining the linear downward slope in the height of the different pieces. I purchased from the House of Staunton the Collector Series Luxury Chess Set (pieces only) with a 3.75" King. I opted for the blood rosewood and natural boxwood pieces. Like your Cooke series, I like the distinctive feature of the collector series with the open-mitered Bishop, and the Knight design, which is modeled after the noble steeds from the Greek Parthenon (Elgin Marbles).
Keep up the good work, and I am looking forward to your next video.
Thanks a lot Armand!! The collector series set is defitely a really nice set so congratulations!! I like the knights on those set, very authentic!
@ Armand I couldn't agree with you more - well-said.
I was eager to see video on this chess set.
i bought these chessmen of ebony and boxwood back in july 2021 and after getting the set, i would come back look at the pieces almost every day for the first few days, and still do from time to time.
Note: the knights have the body attached to the base via a steel threaded bar. The threaded bar is part of the base, and that goes into a threaded sleeve, which is part of the body.
That's awesome! They are very aesthetic chess pieces!!
superb set, great video man, thanks
Thank you!
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I'm trying to sculpt my own pieces and I want to be inspired by your videos. Could you continue to publish videos with the details of the pieces, especially the knight?
For sure, I've been a little under the weather but will be posting more videos soon!
@AlSuChess Thanks so much for all your great videos. I got my "Grand Revivals: Nathaniel Cooke Series 1849 Ebony Chessmen King Height 3.625" from a popular chess maker in India. I saw you weighted your "Austrian Coffee House Chess Set - Royal Chess Mall - Antiqued Boxwood & Ebony - 4.1" King", Ebony is clearly heavier than the boxwood. But mine Ebony and Boxwood are weighted the same . Is there something to concern? I bough the Ebony set not Ebonized boxwood. I do not have your email, otherwise I could email you more details with photos. I would appreciate your helps very much! Thanks!!
I don’t have much idea of value as I’ve been unable to find another. Any help would be grateful if.
Would love to hear your opinion on combining different color dark pieces with different kinds of chess boards. I've found that it's especially hard to make ebony/ebonized pieces to look good. For example ebony pieces don't work with ebony boards because they lack contrast with the dark squares (even though chessbazaar and some other sites routinely combine the two into a chess set). Finding the right shade of color on the chess board to go with the pitch black chess pieces makes a world of difference and is no easy task. On the other hand woods like golden rosewood and tasmanian blackwood look good on almost anything (I really like the HoS Preston set, tasmanian blackwood on green erable).
Oh I fully agree with you, some of it is subjective and some combinations just look better than others. Usually for that reason, picking a board is trickier for me than picking the pieces.
@@AlSuChess Yes, I have a darker board that I have never been happy with but I like the contrast of the black pieces with this board. Purchased because of your example.
This is Karpov Kasparov Chess Set Moscú 1985?
My set is a cook’s original in very good unrestored condition
That’s nice chess pieces. Have no box for my chess e-Pieces. They stay on the e-Boards. Would like to have the Dubrovnik chess pieces
Finding a good box that fits your pieces well I feel like is important, knowing your pieces are protected from being broken, scratched or lost.
Yes, they are unbreakable.
Awesome review! But I didn't get weight of the set. Why is this important? Well,
I brought from HOS (cheap grandmaster) set. In the description it should have been 1.3kg in the description but it's actually 0.95Kg, this made the pieces feel cheap. How close is this set to the median weight they show in the description? In think this is important because Chess Bazaar sets they can be off up to 10% but HOS was over 30% off
Wow, interesting! Tell you what, if I don't forget, I'll go home and weight this set and add the weights of individual pieces as well as the weight of the entire set and add it to the description.
Yeah the 4.5" cooke set from HoS was 2.3Kg and arrive 2.26Kg so was satisfied with that at least
Do you prefer this or the Walter Grimshaw SC set?
I think they are both quite nice and in a way somewhat similar, size and quality! I feel a lot of it has to do with what the expectations are initially. I didn't know what to expect out of the grimshaw set and therefore I was very pleasantly surprised. I already have somewhat of high expectations out of HOS so I was happy to see the set met those expections!
Alex, years ago I had a gorgeous ebony and boxwood set with black leather bottoms, in a beautiful blue velvet box with separate satin-lined trays for the white and black pieces. I donated them in a fit of temporary insanity and have regretted it since. Any idea what they might have been?
BTW your videos are great just as they are.
And whatever camera/lens is being used, it looks awesome.
Thank you very much, I try to improve constantly but my experience and expertise sometimes don't quite align. Do you remember the size of the set, the shape of the knight and the king? Do you remember where you bought it initially?
@@AlSuChess There was no nameplate or marking anywhere on the box. The knights were exquisite without being gaudy. I bought it, along with a Drueke board, in the early 2000’s, from some online seller. Donating it was a mistake; won’t be doing that again, haha.
Thank you for your time, Sir! Be well.
эти фигуры совершенны
Los alfiles son muy feos a comparación de l reto de las piezas. El alfil tiene una boca grande y cabeza pequeña
Ese es el estilo clasico Staunton, uno de los primeros ajedreces hechos por Jaques of London en los años 1800s. Quizas te guste mas los alfiles del estilo Reykjavik!