Apparently, from 1938 to 1972, at least, Jacques did not change the style
of the chess sets they made, even though it was definitely a different style from that of their original Staunton pieces in 1849.
This I learned from this web page...
http://www.fersht.com/chess/
I first tried to find the page by searching on his name, and I found results that I thought were about someone else.
But when I backed up from the page about Staunton chess pieces to his
home page, there was a book about protein folding mentioned there. Thus
he is indeed the same Sir Alan Roy Fersht, FRS FMedSci that my Google
results had turned up!!
To continue with the initial topic...
From this page:
https://bobby-fischer-1972.blogspot.com/1972/07/chess-champions-poised-for-match.html
the salient facts of the board and pieces used are given.
I remembered that the board was green and white marble. But that the
squares were 2 1/4" and chemically treated to be non-glossy were
things I did not know.
Also, while I have seen offered for sale many reproductions of the Fischer-Spassky chess set, I did not know what was being
reproduced. Now I've learned the original set was from Jaques,
being the type they were selling at the time, and the pieces used
had a 3 1/2" King height.
Incidentally, under current USCF standards, a chess board with
2 1/4" squares is _still_ too big for chess pieces with a 3 1/2"
King height. Which goes to show that Fischer was not all that
fussy, despite what the press of the day made out!!
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