This wooden chess set crafted by Redditor benjaab123 takes a minimalist approach to designing and crafting all the pieces and the board. The entire set was built using only a circular saw ...

You build the chess set as two symmetrical halves—first the "white" side of the board and all the white pieces and then the "black" side of the board and all the black pieces. The two halves ...

The horses in higher-end wooden sets must be hand-carved, a long, specialized process to make sure all four are exactly the same. By Sophia June If you bought a wooden chess set after watching ...