Set Rare
Looking for information on a rare cuban chess set. Ajedrez de Cuba?
I came accross a “rare” chess piece that suposedly fidel castro gave to a select few world leaders. I was wondering if anyone knew any information about it. I have it in mint conditions with a certificate and everything. I try to research online but have had no luck.
Ajedrez just means “Chess” and Fidel was a Chess-lover.
Could you perhaps give more info on the certificate, maybe that could lead you further. I also guess that visiting chess – fora could lead to more Info. I wonder how many on Y!A, with todays RPG’s and online simulation games, know how to play chess 
I did find one interesting chess-set, but it’s probably not the one you’re looking for
http://www.thechesspiece.com/ModSet1_modern_day_political_chess_set_1st_edition.html
Other links that could… hold more info
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E3DA1E38F93AA1575BC0A96F958260
http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html
http://ogs.zenutech.com/ogspi/200os/06san003.htm
Some of these are quite long…
Susan Polgar also speaks of the Hungarian chess federation that received a chess set by Castro, maybe they know more.
I Guess Cuban chess-organizations also could know more.
By entering : “fidel castro” “chess set” gift -guevara -ebay
at Google (exactly like that…) I could narrow down the 166.000 results on chess and Castro to 266 results.
The -sign is used to exclude words from results and the words between “” are used to find results with the exact combination of words Fidel Castro and Chess set.
http://www.google.nl/search?q=%22fidel+castro%22+%22chess+set%22+gift+-guevara+-ebay&hl=nl&rlz=1B3GGGL_nlNL231NL232&start=60&sa=N
I’m afraid I can’t give you an exact answer, but hope to have helped you further.
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