The pieces are well crafted, especially the knights, which are some of the best knights I've seen. Outstanding. The other pieces are well crafted, but they should be heavier, especially the king and queen. Presumably some of the space that is normally used for weighting the pieces is taken by the light-weight sensors. The finishing is incomplete on some of the pieces, in particularly the top of the finials of the rooks had not been polished, meaning that area is a different shade to the rest of the piece. You can see the difference in finish in the white queens in the photo, the Chessnut queen is on the left and other premium queen on right. The black pieces are quite pale and not polished. I beeswaxed mine to correct this. I also used Indian Rosewood dye to darken the pieces first, to make them look like Sheesham Staunton pieces. They look great now, but it shouldn't be up to me to correct the pieces. The price for premium pieces is a little high, compared to other premium pieces elsewhere, although you do get the sensors included and the postage is high to the UK, not Chessnut's fault. Overall, very nice pieces, which can easily be improved by a little work. It's hard to find premium pieces that you can use with Chessnut boards, so I think it's a good purchase.
