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.

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.

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 ...

The World Chess Championship has reached a thrilling finale, with the title set to be decided Sunday by tiebreaks. World No.2 Ian Nepomniachtchi and China’s Ding Liren were 6½-6½ going into ...

"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 ...

Sept. 25 (UPI) --A 10-year-old chess player from Malaysia broke a world record in the sport by setting up a chessboard in only 45.72 seconds while blindfolded. Guinness World Records announced ...

The Government said £250,000 will go towards 85 local authorities to install the new chess boards, while the Department for Education will award grants of up to £2,000 to 100 primary schools in ...