Looking at all the different rendered scenes, I realize now that I should have worked on the contact shadows so that the pieces don’t look like they are hovering, particularly the ones on the white squares. Oh well, I’ll remember that when doing my next chess set 
Beautiful styled chess pieces!
The (grainy) textures and low poly do really match, I love it. Good job and outstanding work! 
Sorry, FedPete, I deleted my reply to you by accident. Anyway, this was it:
Thank you for your encouraging and kind words! 
