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  2. Lewis chessmen - Wikipedia

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    The 79 chess pieces [a] consist of 8 kings, 8 queens, 16 bishops, 15 knights, 13 warders (rooks) [a] and 19 pawns. The heights of the pawns range from 3.5 to 5.8 cm ( 1 ⁠ 3 / 8 ⁠ to 2 ⁠ 9 / 32 ⁠ in), while the other pieces are between 7 and 10.2 cm ( 2 ⁠ 3 / 4 ⁠ and 4 in).

  3. Chess set - Wikipedia

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    The oldest chess sets adopted abstract shapes following the Muslim traditional sets of the ... A container for holding chess pieces is known as a chess box. ...

  4. History of chess - Wikipedia

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    The 12th-century Lewis chessmen in the collection of the National Museum of Scotland. The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject of speculation.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Chess - Wikipedia

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    The game of chess was then played and known in all European countries. A famous 13th-century Spanish manuscript covering chess, backgammon, and dice is known as the Libro de los juegos, which is the earliest European treatise on chess as well as being the oldest document on European tables games. [76]

  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 ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Timeline of chess - Wikipedia

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    1846 – Deutsche Schachzeitung is the first German chess magazine. 1848 – Earliest known instance of a game played between blind players. 1849 – The Staunton chess set is created by Nathaniel Cooke. 1851 – First international tournament is held in London, and won by Adolf Anderssen (Prussia). 1852 – Sandglasses are first used to time a ...

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