We’re glad to hear you love the set. The rook indeed has a distinctive design and is taller than the pawns to help differentiate it. If you have any other thoughts or suggestions, we'd love to hear them!
I'd like to offer my review and some constructive critique of this set. I feel like you have based the set on the classic Staunton, but have deviated from the classic Staunton in some weird directions, and introduced some weird design language mistakes: 1. The king's head is disproportionately bulbous and looks quite odd. 2. The queen's head looks more like a cooking pot with a lid than the Staunton crown. 3. The rook is supposed to be a brutalist stocky threatening structure with battlements. You have softened it and made it rounded, so that now it looks nothing like the historical structurs it was suppose to allude to. 4. The bishop's gap is unusually large, indelicate and coarse. 4. And finally, my least favourite thing - the knights are overly ornate. This amount of embellishment is out of keeping with the rest of the set, and is frankly quite ugly. They look more like dragons than horses. I suspect like they're made with Deremel tools by people who can turn wood, but have no sense of artistic restraint or style. Would love to see if you have a minimalist set.
We highly appreciate you taking the time to analyze and share your feedback for the set. The same has been forwarded to the design team. You can check out our collection of chess pieces and combos on the website to find the one that matches with what you love to see.
