Antique-style hand-carved Thai wooden chess pieces ,made from marble teak wood

Description

Exquisite Thai chess pieces (Makruk) which made from teak wood. medium size to play with any chess board.
The pieces consist of :
1.Khun (king) –size 3.5 x 8.5
cm
2.Medh (king’s servant) –size 2.7 x 5.5 cm
3.Kone (king’s guard) –size 3.3 x 7.3 cm
4.Mah (horse, knight) – size 3.1 x 7.5 cm
5.Reur (ship, rook) – size 2.9 x 4 cm
6.Bier (soldier, pawn) – size 2.9 x 1 cm
Can play on any 8x8 chess board with Thai chess rule.
Makruk (Thai chess) is one of the most ancient game in Thai history. The origin of this game came from India, called
“
Chaturanka
”
which is the classic strategic game of the king and high nobleman. Southeast Asia has been influent by this game for the long time. There were many variations of chess occurred i.e. Thai chess, Myanmar chess and Cambodian chess.
Thai chess is the deep-thinking game like other chess. Even former world’s chess champions, Anatoly Karpov and Vladimir Kramnik, used to pay attention at Thai chess and said that this game is one of the greatly complex and logical chess games.
Playing Thai chess can also improve your regular chess game especially in close-position situation and end game skill.
Shipping info – from Thailand via private shipping company - Fastship, DHL, etc.
Payment – Paypal
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