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2. 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 ...

3. British Chess Company - Wikipedia

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   The BCC developed new manufacturing processes with new types of materials, such as Xylonite for their chess pieces. In 1891, the BCC registered the design for two of their chess sets: (1) Royal Chessmen; (2) Imperial Staunton. [1] Both the 'Royal' and 'Imperial' were made in boxwood and ebony.

4. Lewis chessmen - Wikipedia

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   Chess pieces envisioned human bodies which were constantly re-imagined and re-interpreted in the medieval period, and the Lewis chess king is fittingly characterised by a beard, hairstyle, and facial features that would not stand out in twelfth-century Norway, the supposed origin point of the set.

5. 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.

6. Spice Chess - Wikipedia

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   The most famous of these disrupted sets, Yoko Ono's White Chess Set (see Yoko Ono's Myspace), in which all the pieces are white on a totally white board (with a brass plaque underneath reading 'Chess Set for playing as long as you can remember where all your pieces are' [14]) was originally made for Ono's exhibition at Indica Gallery, London ...

7. Amazon (chess) - Wikipedia

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   An icon for the amazon used in diagrams. The amazon, also known as the queen+knight compound or the dragon, is a fairy chess piece that can move like a queen or a knight.It may thus be considered the sum of all orthodox chess pieces other than the king (because it cannot castle and does not know when it is under threat via the check rule) and the pawn (because it cannot practice en passant).