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The House of Staunton is proud to offer the Essex Series Chess set. This heirloom-quality Chess set features a 3.0" King with a 1.4" diameter base and is heavily weighted.

As with all of our Chess sets, the Essex Series exemplifies a perfect combination of distinct beauty and functionality. It has been designed to withstand the rigors of practical play while maintaining an elegance which has become the hallmark of a House of Staunton chess set. The design, quality and craftsmanship of this set is UNMATCHED by any set of Chessmen in its price range. Nothing even comes close!

The Chess Set comes with a Individually Numbered Certificate of Authenticity and an original manufacturer's plaque indicating the production number, with an adhesivebacking that would allow it to be affixed to the underside of a Chess box.

Very little is known of Frank Marshall's early career since most biographies skip quickly over this period onto the great tournaments of his later years. For this book chess historian John Hilbert has researched many forgotten newspapers and journals to produce the first accurate account of this part of Marshall's life. Even Marshall, in his autobiography "My 50 Years of Chess", often failed to remember his own past correctly!

Chess Biography of New York strongest chess player. Philip Richardson (1841-1920) with large collection of his chess games (193) many of them annotated.

The detailed account of the chess career of the prominent world-known artist Marcel Duchamp in the period 1887-1925. This volume covers his stays and chess playing in Argentine (1919), USA (1920-1922), Belgium (1923) and France (1924-1925).

The detailed account of the chess career of the prominent world-known artist Marcel Duchamp, which covers the period 1926-1930. It contents 370 games, including 55 Duchamp's games.

Chess Biography of two Romanian chess players, Adof Albin and Georg Marco, who were prominent chess players of 19th and 20th century.

Annotated International Bibliography of chess books, chess bulletins and chess programs. This bibliography aims to provide, for the first time and comprehensively, and extensive record of publications on chess competitions held the world over from 1824, the year in which the correspondence match between the Edinburg and London Chess Clubs began, up until 1970.

Frank Ross Anderson (1928-1980) was, in the 1950s, one of the best Western chess players and a giant of Canadian chess, representing Canada in the 1954, 1958 and 1964 Olympiads. This book combines a biography of Anderson together with 523 of his games with annotations either by Anderson himself, from contemporary magazine articles or by the author.