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H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:11 AM UTC:
Well, the person selling these does not do it for profit (he is retired),
so my guess is this is close to manufacturing cost.

I am not sure what you mean by 'cover all piece types'. What is 'all'?
The number of possible piece types is unlimited, but except for the
orthodox Chess pieces no Staunton shape is defined for any of them. People
do not even agree about how they should be called, so taking a shape that
could be considered a logical representation for that name is already a
hopeless task.

So any unorthodox piece can represent what you want it to represent. If
there are enough different models, you won't have too much trouble
picking a subset for playing any given variant.

Btw, about the Superchess software: I have instructions available in
English for that, on my website:
http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/superE.html .