The collection includes flower-shaped game pieces, a die with six eyes and a horse chess piece. The pieces, which were carved from antlers, were discovered at the site of what used to be a castle ...

Prior to 1849, there was no such thing as a “normal chess set.” At least not like we think of it today. Over the centuries that chess had been played, innumerable varieties of sets of pieces ...

"By looking at the ancient form of chess, shatranj, the piece from Tønsberg appears to be a horse," which is known today as a knight, they said. [The 25 Most Mysterious Archaeological Finds on ...

Many underestimate the horse headed knight chess piece, but it is full of surprises, just like Degeneration X and their 'invasions' of WCW events. Big and imposing, but capable of moving with a ...

The knights in the set used in World Chess Championship matches ($310 for the pieces and $220 for the board) were inspired by a horse carving from the Parthenon in Athens, said Ilya Merenzon ...

While this may look far from the crenelated castle towers we call rooks today, it's spot-on for rooks in the earliest known chess sets, where those swift-moving pieces were shaped to evoke horse ...

The collection includes flower-shaped game pieces, a dice with six eyes and a horse chess piece. The pieces, which were carved from antlers, were discovered at the site of what used to be a castle ...

The vaunted Staunton Chess Set, the standard chess set you probably grew up with, has its roots in neoclassical architecture Jimmy Stamp Prior to 1849, there was no such thing as a “normal chess ...