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 ...

"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 ...

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 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 ...

At this factory in Amritsar, India, artisans carve the pieces for the official World Chess Championship sets ... It's designed to look like a realistic horse head. It's the most detailed of ...

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 ...