As a traveler in Europe during the Middle Ages, you’d probably be able to find a good game of chess wherever you went. It was also likely that every game would be played on a different type of set.

When I was about 10 and planning to be a chess champion — even though I barely knew my fianchettos from my fingerfehlers — I crafted my own chess set out of papier-mache, the ...

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One rare nonpolarizing event in 2020 was the release of Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit.” The miniseries about orphaned, struggling chess prodigy Beth Harmon not only captivated audiences, but it also ...

Prior to 1849, there was no such thing as a “normal chess set.” At least not like we think of it today. Over the centuries that chess had been played, innumerable varieties of sets of pieces were ...

I grew up in a chess-playing household. My father put his woodworking skills to good use and built a chess table for us to play on, we purchased multiple collectors' sets online, and we even equipped ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – DECEMBER 3: Chess Club director Abel Talamantez is photographed at Mechanics’ Institute Chess Club in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News ...