These chess sets from Anthropologie, ... including beech and birch. The Staunton-style pieces are intricately carved from sycamore, hornbeam, and beech, giving this regal-set an heirloom feel.

The pieces in these fancier sets can come in a few styles, but most are some variation of the Staunton design, which is the most widely used and recognizable style of chess piece. Within this ...

Chess was born in India around the 6th century, and for the next millennium and beyond, its pieces were far from universal in name or design. The game’s original cavalry, elephants, and chariots ...

Offering three different versions, the nesting chess set is available from $35, and the chess pieces are stored in a unique stacking design. “A full-size set awaits within an efficiently sized ...

Here's some history. The game of chess goes back some 1500 years, but not the name. Before chess was called chess, it was known as chaturanga and began in India as a tabletop game of war between ...

I don’t see any practical way for the Duchamp estate to sue over the 3D-printed chess pieces in a U.S. court,” said Mitch Stoltz, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation ...