The Selenus Luxury Bone Chess Pieces - 4.0" King Modern Defense with a series of exercises

with a series of exercises of increasing difficulty

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The Selenus Luxury Bone Chess Pieces - 4.0" King Modern Defense with a series of exercisesThe Selenus set you have is called the Tulip Style. This style was made in Germany from the 18th and 19th Centuries. They varied greatly in size and were almost always crafted from bone. In 1616 Augustus, the Duke of Brunswick Luneburg, published the first German chess book under the pseudonym Gustavas Selenus. Gustavas is an anagram of Augustus with one "u" replaced by a "v." The name Selenus comes from Selene, Greek goddess of the moon, a reference