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"The Battle of Empires"
Author and sculptor: Oleksiy Zigura, Kyiv,Ukraine. Second authors copy 2005-2007.
Materials: bronze, marble, mahogany, leather
Table dimensions: 64x64x10,5 cm. Chess cell: 6x6 cm.
Chess-men dimensions: king - 14 cm, bishop - 12,5 cm, pawn - 7,5 cm
While creating the images of our chess figures we used the knowledge and historical data which came to us from the Medieval Europe and Asia times.
White: the Holy Roman Empire, XVI century. Medieval knights (Germany) King - the Emperor Carl V.
Black: Turkish-Osman Empire, XVI century. Janissary - 1-st half of XVI century. King - sultan Suleiman I. |
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"The "Kulikovskaya" Battle"
Sculptors: Zigura Egor and Zigura Mykyta
Materials: silver, jasper, mahogany, leather
Table dimensions: 64x64x10,5 cm. Chess cell: 6x6 cm.
Chess-men dimensions: king - 14 cm, bishop - 12,5 cm, pawn - 7.5 cm.
Here the ideas and images of our chess-men we based at historical information achieved us from the time of the Ancient Russ and Asia.
White: Ancient Russ XIV century. King - Great Prince Dmitry Ivanovich (Donskoy)
Black: Golden Orda XIV century. King - Khan Mamay.
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