Originally Posted by
Jerry Lawrence
Wow! Great job and nice uniformity overall. Just one question....why the extra queens?
Thanks Jerry,
Most of the nice chess sets come with extra queens to make it easy to deal with queening a pawn before your queen gets taken. It's just a nice touch to have for those rare occasions.
"History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it." -Walter Bagehot