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 ...

The first set was a gesture of love. Bernice Meisels and Floyd Sarisohn met as college students in New York City in the early 1950s. He used to play chess with strangers in Washington Square Park.

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 ...

Taras Yoom launched the “Diamond Age” collection, featuring a silver-and-diamond chess set It includes the “Another Kingdom” chess set and “Old Money” sculpture Two chess editions: 21 lab‑grown, 11 ...

The new exhibit at the Menil Collection will blow your socks off. You don't play? No matter. The exhibit will blow your socks off, anyway. Chess is said to be the game of kings, thinkers and bright ...

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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 ...

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 ...