"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 ...

An 800-year-old chess piece was excavated at a site in Norway, covered with a unique pattern of circles. The piece depicts a horse-like figure, but in today's game it would be known as the knight.

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 ...

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 ...