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  2. Makonde chess set - Wikipedia

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    After Kirk's death in 1969 a group of carvers who had formerly supplied Kirk continued to carve chess sets. This group was centred on the village of Ziwani near Mtwara. Several new themes were developed by this group including the seated smoker set, the drummer set, and the bird set. Scarification marks tend to be omitted on modern pieces. [3]

  3. 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.

  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. Selenus chess set - Wikipedia

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    The Selenus sets were typical of Germany and Northern Europe and are named after Gustavus Selenus, the pen name of Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, author of the Chess or the King's Game (German: Das Schach- oder Königsspiel), [3] an important chess manual published in the 17th century. The standard included delicate lathe ...

  6. Chess table - Wikipedia

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    A chess table is a table with a chessboard painted or engraved on it. The photograph shows a chess table in a park. A chess table is a table built with features to make it useful for playing the game of chess. They can come in various sizes and shapes, and are usually made of solid wood. They can be found in some cities and other public areas.

  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. Dubrovnik chess set - Wikipedia

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    The pieces were made in Subozan in Subotica, Yugoslavia. The 1950 Dubrovnik chess set was designed without religious symbols. The pieces were designed for play with wide bases requiring a minimum of 55 millimetres (2.2 in) chessboard squares. They had green felted sliders and were not weighted. [4]

  9. Peter Ganine - Wikipedia

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    Peter Ganine (October 11, 1900 – August 11, 1974) was a Georgian-Russian-American sculptor best known for his work in ceramics and his chess sets. Ganine began his art studies in Russia. He spent five years as a trader in the Belgian Congo [ 4 ] before coming to the US in 1931, [ 5 ] on a scholarship to Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington ...

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