To be played in the rapid format, chess will be contested between 16 teams represented by one player each. The turnout from the chess community has been enthusiastic, with four of the world’s top five ...

The ubiquity of chess makes it easy to pick up a first set. You can find bargain basement sets with chintzy plastic pieces and brittle cardboard boards at just about any department or drug store.

How to Set Up a Chess Board. Before you can play with your new chess set, you need to learn how to arrange the pieces for play. Setting Up a Chess Board | Image Credit: Getty.

Like its cars and other accessories, Rolls-Royce's chess set is hand-crafted. The board's aluminum grid is machine-milled and then delicately refined by hand to get the corners perfected, which is ...

It could have jazzed the set up with additional, decorative elements on the board itself. ... LEGO Traditional Chess Set, Set #40719, retails for $74.99 is composed of 743 pieces.

Vincent Hubbard played chess in prison as an escape. Now he plays $20 games on the streets of South L.A. and competes in tournaments to find a new path forward.

"The king is generally up to 7 inches tall.” David Pentimone Pentimone is working to complete a chess set that celebrates Kansas City architecture, with the sky stations of Bartle Hall, vintage ...

But the chess master didn’t stop there and continued to cushion the new record late into Friday night, with his sights set on the 60-hour mark. 10 Chessmaster Tunde Onakoya took on a line-up of ...

But even without a charge, this set is still a beautiful rosewood-colored chess board that comes with two 32 playing pieces. Your opponents online don’t need to have a Square Off chessboard to play.

A whole chess set is translated into wearable accessories in this prototype by French designer Louis Le Joly Senoville, a fan of the game who wanted to make it possible to play anywhere at any time.

This is a Rolls-Royce after all, so the chess set will be pretty customizable, and as it uses the same materials as the brand's cars, you can order one to match your car.