513 carats of fine white diamonds, South Sea pearls, and sapphires. 18-carat solid white gold. We’re not talking about a glittering crown belonging to fictional royalty, or the contents of a ...

French mathematician Blaise Pascal said "chess is the gymnasium of the mind." Truer words were never spoken with some studies suggesting that playing chess can even help prevent dementia. These days ...

When Tiffany & Co. set out to make a chess set, it did so via an unlikely muse—cardboard. “We were playing around with [it], the way it’s corrugated,” says chief artistic officer Reed Krakoff. Toying ...