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2. The Most Unique Chess Sets For Every Type of Pop ... - AOL

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   This board is made out of tempered glass, held off thesurface by satin finish pewter feet. Pieces include Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, Han Solo, R2-D2, C-3PO, Darth Vader, Obi-Wan ...

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. 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 ...

5. Lewis chessmen - Wikipedia

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   Although there are 19 pawns (a complete set requires 16), they have the greatest range of sizes of all the pieces, which has suggested that the 79 chess pieces might belong to at least five sets. [17] All the pawns are smaller, geometric shapes – cylinders and "tombstones" – perhaps intended to resemble boundary markers.

6. 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 ...

7. 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.