A King’s Demise
Jan 3rd, 2008 by jeremy
A couple of days ago my son came across our family’s old chess set in m mother’s basement. I hadn’t thought about this set in some time, and I was happy to see we still had it. The set was purchased my dad while serving in the Navy overseas. This is one of those family keepsakes that you hope never gets lost or destroyed.
The craftmanship of this hand-carved set is amazing; particularly the detail work on the individual pieces. Tonight I decided to set it up on the kitchen table and document each piece. I was using the simple overhead kitchen lighting and hand holding the camera, so my consistency was a little off. I also quickly found that the lighting was insufficient to photo the dark side of the set. The white pieces turned out quite well though I thought.
You can see the complete flickr set here.
Canon 40D, 24-105L, 1/25 at f/4.0 and 640 ISO
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Thanks Jeremy,
Misty eyes, yeah, because of your photo and family memories.
Really, I want to thank you for reminding me of happy times playing chess with my older brother Steven. We used to “battle” one another when I was in 5th and 6th grade and throughout my junior high school years. Our chess sessions pretty much ended when Steven graduated from high school. He was four years older than me. He had taught me to play. I never became a “feared” opponent.
We played a few times throughout our “later” years. He remembered the best moves. I did not. Steven passed away suddenly in the summer of 2006.
His daughter, Tara found three chess sets amongst his belongings. She never learned to play. She said she would give me a set. I’m still waiting.
T appreciate your poignant photographs.
Sincerely,
Sylvia
*hug*
Thanks Jer. I remember playing chess with Dad on this.
I liked playing with him, and joined the chess team for a while in school because of it–but dropped because of the attitude of the chess ‘captain’.
Who had issues because a girl dared to play, and because I didn’t come up to his standards of play, but only enjoyed the game. *lol*
Teren likes to play occassionally, although he prefers “Nightmare Chess” with the additional randomization elements.