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  2. Library to display unique collection of chess sets

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    For example, Cates owns Anri's "Far West" chess set, a beautiful set of intricately hand-carved pieces featuring the U.S. cavalry against Native Americans. He thinks the set dates to the early 1960s.

  3. Elephant of Yusuf al-Bahili - Wikipedia

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    The elephant of Yūsuf al-Bāhilī, known as the Chessman of Charlemagne [1] or Eléphant de Charlemagne, [2] is an ivory sculpture, possibly part of a chess set and probably carved in Sindh in the 9th century AD. It has been in Paris since at least the 16th century.

  4. Charlemagne chessmen - Wikipedia

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    Queen. The legend regarding the set states that these chessmen were given as a gift to Charlemagne by Caliph Harun al-Rashid, [3] who was an avid chess player. The fact that the set displays elephants instead of bishops and chariots instead of rooks denotes a form of the Perso-Arabic game known as Shatranj, itself coming from the original Indian Chaturanga (which compound word means the 'Four ...

  5. The Most Unique Chess Sets For Every Type of Pop ... - AOL

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    Modeled after the 3-D chess games played while in the Ten Forward lounge while aboard the USS Enterprise -D, this chess set features pieces of everyone’s favorite “Star Trek” characters ...

  6. The Bradford Exchange - Wikipedia

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    Now part of the Bradford Group, it was founded in 1973 as The Bradford Gallery of Collector's Plates by J. Roderick MacArthur. [1] The company created its first live price quotation market in 1983, [ 2 ] but increasingly turned to creating new lines of collectibles (rather than just facilitating exchanges between collectors).

  7. Chess piece - Wikipedia

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    A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one of six types: king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, or pawn. Chess sets generally come with sixteen pieces of each color.

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