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  2. The Eight (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Eight, published in 1988, is American author Katherine Neville's debut novel.It is an adventure/quest novel in which the heroine, computer whiz Catherine Velis, must enter into a cryptic world of danger and conspiracy in order to recover the pieces of a legendary chess set once owned by Charlemagne and buried for one thousand years.

  3. Chess set - Wikipedia

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    A chess set. A chess set consists of a chessboard and white and black chess pieces for playing chess. [1] There are sixteen pieces of each color: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns. Extra pieces may be provided for use in promotion, most commonly one extra queen per color.

  4. Mephisto (chess computer) - Wikipedia

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    The hardware uses a 200 MHz ARM processor to run modern chess engines, resulting in the strongest dedicated chess computer ever created. 2007 Phoenix Chess Systems releases an updated module set, the Resurrection II, with a faster 500 MHz XScale processor.

  5. Library to display unique collection of chess sets

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    Dec. 2—HIGH POINT — When most people see a chess set, they see the individual pieces — the king and queen, the bishops, the knights, the rooks and the pawns. When Larry Cates sees a chess ...

  6. House of Staunton - Wikipedia

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    HOS Brighton chess set with pieces made of rosewood. The HOS specializes in the manufacture of Staunton chess sets. [5] They offer a wide range of chess sets including older chess sets, which would have been used in the past centuries, including but not limited to: the English Barleycorn chess set, the St. George chess set, the French Regence chess set and the Selenus chess set.

  7. 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 ...

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