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2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Category:Chess sets - Wikipedia

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   Staunton chess set This page was last edited on 19 December 2015, at 12:48 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...

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. British Chess Company - Wikipedia

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   Both the 'Royal' and 'Imperial' were made in boxwood and ebony. Also they offered a very rare (3) Royal Chessmen 'Presentation Set' which was made of metal. The pieces were skilfully turned in German silver for the light colour, and in gilding metal for the dark. Only full club size 1 was available for the handsome sum of £12 12s.

7. Staunton chess set - Wikipedia

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   The Staunton chess set is the standard style of chess pieces, [1] [2] recommended for use in competition since 2022 by FIDE, the international chess governing body. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The journalist Nathaniel Cooke is credited with the design on the patent, and they are named after the leading English chess master Howard Staunton , who endorsed it ...