In chess, the most elaborate piece is usually the knight because of the work involved in carving a horse, but Roll-Royce has stripped the piece down to just a few immaculate lines. The set can ...

For the pieces, Rolls-Royce says its designers "studied the profile of traditional chess pieces, electing to extrude them downward into square bases," and I have to say they look very slick.

Attention chess lovers and history buffs, there’s now a chess set at M.S. Rau Antiques in New Orleans on sale for $1.65 million. Named Battle of Issus after the second battle Alexander the Great ...

The horses in higher-end wooden sets must be hand-carved, a long, specialized process to make sure all four are exactly the same. By Sophia June If you bought a wooden chess set after watching ...

We piece together the LEGO Traditional Chess Set, a pretty basic build, but one that's meant to be used to play chess. And from that perspective, it's almost perfect.

Chess may seem like a placid pursuit, but it has plenty to do with combat. Of course, the game itself is a virtual portrayal of war complete with castles, knights, and royalty. But during World ...