Last week we published a history of the Staunton chess ... of art and craft. The pieces are stripped of any symbolic meaning and reduced to pure form. Their designations –bishop, knight, king ...

Of all the popular board games, chess is perhaps the oldest and certainly one of the most intriguing. Both the pieces ... armies for a king. So they also played a role in the art of war.

Winning a chess game is done by putting the opponent’s king into checkmate. This is when the king is put into check and cannot escape. The king is not captured like a typical piece; if checkmate ...

Cancel anytime. The giant chess piece standing outside the World Chess Hall of Fame in the Central West End is in check. At 20 feet tall, the wood king piece is officially the world’s largest ...