Last week we published a history of the Staunton chess ... a union of art and craft. The pieces are stripped of any symbolic meaning and reduced to pure form. Their designations –bishop, knight ...

Of all the popular board games, chess ... the art of war. Who better to replace a strong elephant in battle than a powerful bishop? In the Germanic world, läufer ("runner") refers to the piece's ...

Prior to 1849, there was no such thing as a “normal chess ... the tallest piece, serves as a metric for the height of the others; the queen is topped by a crown and ball; the bishop has a ...