Beautiful foldable PTT Thai chess set, limited collection, vintage-style

Description

Thai chess set made by PTT oil group at Thai chess lover festival 2013 in Bangkok. Limited products
The chess pieces are made from high-quality PE plastic.
The box cover can assemble to the board, easily portable.
pieces consist of :
1.Khun (king) –size
3 x 7.5
cm
2.Medh (king’s servant) –size
2.5 x 5
cm
3.Kone (king’s guard) –size
2.8 x 6.5
cm
4.Mah (horse, knight) – size
3 x 6.5
cm
5.Reur (ship, rook) – size
2.8 x 4
cm
6.Bier (soldier, pawn) – size
2.5 x 0.8
cm
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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