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2. Chess set - Wikipedia

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   Chess boxes, chess clocks, and chess tables are common pieces of chess equipment used alongside chess sets. Chess sets are made in a wide variety of styles, sometimes for ornamental rather than practical purposes. For tournament play, the Staunton chess set is preferred and, in some cases, required. Human chess uses people as the pieces.

3. Lewis chessmen - Wikipedia

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   There are many medieval chess bishops of various origins in different museums in Europe and US. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] A bishop that probably predates the Lewis chessmen was in the collection of Jean-Joseph Marquet de Vasselot and was sold at Christie's in Paris in 2011 with a radiocarbon dating report stating that there is a 95% probability that ...

4. Super-sized chess set: $99 - AOL

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   The Daily Deal for Wednesday, June 11: If you've ever seen Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part I, you might remember the giant chess scene. Basically, King Louis XVI of France, shortly before ...

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

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   Unless you’re Beth Harmon on “Queen’s Gambit” — high on a mix of Librium and unrelenting ambition — then you probably can’t play an entire game of chess on the ceiling, from the ...

6. 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 ...

7. YoVille: Build A Giant Chess Set - AOL

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   You can now build a whimsical chess set as more chess pieces have been released ( Check picture after the link). The whimsical black and white kings Zynga released many new items in the Furniture ...