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"Captain America: Civil War" is a masterfully rendered and edited $250 million movie, but the production team might have put a little more thought into the chess pieces. A chess board in the ...
"Photography and the American Civil War," an exhibit of 200 photographs taken during the Civil War (1861 to 1865) opens at the New Orleans Museum of Art Friday. It's a ...
was as much about Cold War politics as it was about pawns and bishops. Now, a chess board used in the ''Match of the Century'' is slated to be auctioned off in New York City on Friday, in a ...
An amber chess board taken by King Charles 1 to his execution ... by the Scots to the Parliamentarians during the English Civil War. The news sealed the royal's fate and he was executed on January ...
Talented artists and sculptors spent hours creating the rich detail featured in these pieces so chess players could have their chance to relive history. 2. American Civil War Hand-Painted Chess ...
You've seen specialty chess sets before: maybe a Civil War set, where the pieces are soldiers ... by moving your king across the middle of the board, known as a midline invasion.