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  2. 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 ...

  3. Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard - Wikipedia

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    The hoard of ninety-three games pieces was found on the Isle of Lewis and was exhibited in Edinburgh in 1831. [1] Most accounts have said the pieces were found at Uig Bay) on the west coast of Lewis but Caldwell et al. of National Museums Scotland (NMS) consider that Mealista), also in the parish of Uig and some 6 miles (10 km) further south down the coast, is a more likely place for the hoard ...

  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. List of chess variants - Wikipedia

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    Choker: A combination of chess and poker, with players betting on cards made up from pieces of a standard chess set. [101] Dark chess (or Fog of War chess): The player sees only squares of the board that are attacked by their pieces. [102] Dice chess [multivariant]: The pieces a player is able to move are determined by rolling a pair of dice. [103]

  6. The Seventh Seal - Wikipedia

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    The Seventh Seal (Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet) is a 1957 Swedish historical fantasy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.Set in Sweden [3] [4] during the Black Death, it tells of the journey of a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) and a game of chess he plays with the personification of Death (Bengt Ekerot), who has come to take his life.

  7. Courier chess - Wikipedia

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    Knight: At b1, k1, b8, and k8 stands the knight, which moves one square orthogonally, followed by one square diagonally, leaping the squares (the same as the modern chess knight). Rook: In the corners, at a1, l1, a8, and l8 stands the rook, [2] which moves any number of squares orthogonally (the same as its modern chess counterpart).

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