Nice work Maurizio
Wellcome to GFX!

Nice, but brings up one question..
Which side is white and which side is black ?
If the near side is black then they are set up wrong.
The Queen of white sits on a white square and the Queen of black sits on a Black square.
So as you have it the nearest are white and the far side is black, ???

In addition the board itself is set up wrong. You have the board position turned the wrong way..
When set for the the right hand side when you sit behind your pieces should be WHITE.. the rule is Right is White.
In your image the board is set for draughts !!
Otherwise a good render.. But render what you know and you clearly dont play chess..
http://www.chessguru.net/chess_rules/position.png

Agree with Almost-Human.
Anyway good job, welcome!
Nikola.

Good Work! Welcome to GFX! I also agree with Almost-Human, heheh, perhaps it's better if you reposition the board and pieces... +7/8

really good effort and work. I look at this and see tons of time put in to it if I was modeling this. I'm a little confused with the reflection on wood....don't think that would be there in a realistic render
I'm new here too, and still await my first 'initiation by submission' =D....
so cheers to ya!

Thanks for all the comments. Almost-Human you are right. The pieces didn´t have clear colors and the board was all wrong.
So I turned to the task of fixing those problems and I made this new render (which is now posted). I think I got the board position right this time. Sorry for the ooops.
And also thanks to Arzillier 66, NIKa, Mark7th and Phos for their comments.

Pretty nice work. I like the texture of the pieces. I also like the polished wood surface. My only crit is that the dark grey background seems a bit "blah" to me right now.

sometimes besides having a nice render is good to tell a story, can be anithing simple but tell something, you can arrange the pieces like if they where playing and the king is about to be defeated.
+6

i had a hard time making a few chess pieces while learning 3dsmax. i still didn't proceed that much in it