Dec. 2—HIGH POINT — When most people see a chess set, they see the individual pieces — the king and queen, the bishops, the knights, the rooks and the pawns. When Larry Cates sees a chess set, he sees ...

See examples from the World Chess Hall of Fame collection's unusual chess sets. A Silver and Copper Enamel Chess Set and Board from Hungary is part of the World Chess Hall of Fame collection of chess ...

PEORIA, Ill., June 6 (UPI) -- A Morton, Ill., man, after 14 years of collecting, boasts an impressive array of chess sets from all around the world. The Peoria Journal-Star reports that 53-year old ...

Unless you’re Beth Harmon on “Queen’s Gambit” — high on a mix of Librium and unrelenting ambition — then you probably can’t play an entire game of chess on the ceiling, from the depths of your own ...

We don’t know if you’ve noticed but chess is having a bit of a moment right now. Thanks to Netflix’ superb and stylish miniseries The Queen’s Gambit, many retailers are reporting a significant ...

CHESS MASTERPIECES: ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF EXTRAORDINARY CHESS SETS By George Dean with Maxine Brady Abrams, $65 272 pages Chess has tens if not hundreds of millions of adherents around the globe. A ...