Chess collecting is popular among philatelists. It is one of the sections of thematic collecting of postal signs, which is dedicated to famous chess players, chess, various tournaments and everything related to this topic. In the Soviet Union, chess topic on stamps was especially wide-spread. It’s not a secret that many outstanding chess players like to collect thematic post stamps. For example, former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov assembled a big collection, which he left to be kept in a bank vault. In our catalog of post stamps there are thematic ones (sports, chess). Their price is around 1,590 rubles to 2 490 rubles per set. These sets of stamps are produced in Eritrea and Tanzania. On such stamps are often illustrated famous chess players, such as Anatoly Karpov, Robert Fisher, Michael Tal, Alexander Alekhine, Wilhelm Steinitz and many others. Such thematic set will be a wonderful present for a person who loves playing chess and board games. Collecting stamps is not only a hobby, thanks to this interesting process you can find out a lot of new things, because of the additional information on every single stamp.
