I learnt chess when I was working in the Railways in Australia when I did some clerical work, morning, afternoon & night shift's, you would have railway guards coming in to hand in their train shifts and the majority of them were migrants from the likes of Poland, Hungry and everywhere else in Europe and they bloody knew how to play chess and I had my arse whipped many a time but I fell in love with the game then.
As I have mentioned they are all hand-painted and an Oriental Chinese Warriors look.