The warder is the first of five missing pieces to materialize since the remaining chessmen’s discovery in 1831 Courtesy of Sotheby's In 1964, an antiques dealer from Edinburgh, Scotland, spent ...

Everybody needs a chess set. And if you’re going to have a chess set, it might as well be a fun chess set, like MakerBot’s Dragons of Glastonbury chess set. That way, if you get bored playing chess, ...

After a pandemic and film delays, Illuminations' next Minions project is almost here. Minions: The Rise of Gru is finally set to hit theaters July 1, 2022, giving viewers a prequel film to Despicable ...

A black chess player about to win against a light-skinned cleric. Chess problem 88 in the Libro de axedrez, dados e tablas (Seville, 1283). Medieval manuscripts, paintings and chess sets reveal that ...

WALLINGFORD, ENGLAND—A tiny chess piece that may have been part of a traveling set has been unearthed in the backyard at Wallingford Museum, located in southeast England. “It is one of only about 50 ...

In the medieval European imagination, racial difference was often highly polarized. Black people were perceived either as exotic status symbols—including saints and wealthy rulers such as the Queen of ...

NORTHAMPTON, ENGLAND—Two medieval chess pieces carved from antler have been unearthed at a construction site in England’s East Midlands. The larger of the two twelfth-century game pieces was probably ...

In the medieval European imagination, racial difference was often highly polarised. Black people were perceived either as exotic status symbols – including saints and wealthy rulers such as the Queen ...