- Who
- Tumen- Ulzii Zandraa
- What
- 438 total number
- Where
- Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar)
- When
The largest collection of chess sets consists of 438 items and was achieved by Tumen- Ulzii Zandraa (Mongolia), in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on 26 April 2019.
Tumen- Ulzii learned to play chess when he was in school as he watched his father regularly play chess with his friends. The rich history of chess in Mongolia further inspired Tumen- Ulzii to expand his collection.
As well as collecting chess sets, he also makes them himself from various materials such as birch, ebony tree roots, bone, stone, cow horns, casted and engraved from brass, bronze, copper, silver and gold.