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A famous Russian sculptor and designer of chess Oleg Raikis has finished creating of series of designs as the project " CHESS OF 21 CENTURY" , dedicated to the strongest chess players of the finishing century : world champion number one Garry Kasparov , a chess player number two , a challenger Vladimir Kramnik and woman champion of 2000 Xie Jun........

Flowers style

London, October,4

During the ceremony of the openning of the match for the world title between the World Champion Garry Kasparov and a challenger Vladimir Kramnik a famous russian sculptor and chess designer Oleg Raikis was introduced by the organizer of the match Sir Jeremy Hanley. Sir Jeremy Hanley also introduced a unique chess set " Flowers" , made by Oleg Raikis, to the participants of the ceremony. The set is made of mammoth ivory and rare sort of wood - bokaut. Afterwards the sculptor presented the champion and the challenger with chess designs, dedicated to them.

Oleg Raikis is a russian sculptor, specializing in the fields of work with mammoth ivory, walrus, amber, hard wood. He has created a big amount of pieces of art: author sculptures and chess sets, which belong to collections of famous people and collectors all over the world. Some of his works are exhibited at the Gallery of Cees Hogendoorn ( Amsterdam ). He is famous not only to collectors of modern art and to collectors of antique as an expert and restorer. Oleg Raikis is a member of Internationl Federation of Artists (UNESCO), Chess Collectors International, International Art Fund.

King: 13 cm (5.1 inches), Pawn: 5.2 cm (1.7 inches) - weighted and felt lined;
Board: 43.2 cm (17 inches).

White chessmen: mammoth tusk,

Black chessmen: bokaut

Chessboard base: oak, stained oak;

Black squares: nut-tree, mahogany, fumed oak, stained mammoth tusk;

White squares: wild pear-tree, mammoth tusk, birch, oak, ash-tree

	Chessmen		Board			Price
	White	Black	Base	White squares	Black squares	Price
1	mammoth tusk	bokaut	oak/ stained oak	wild pear-tree/ birch/ oak/ ash-tree	nut-tree/ mahogany/ fumed oak	e-mail us
2	mammoth tusk	stained mammoth tusk	oak/ stained oak	mammoth tusk	stained mammoth tusk	e-mail us