The most famous chess pieces in the world were carved from walrus ivory during the Middle Ages, but much of their history is still unknown. The Lewis Chessmen are the most important chess pieces in ...
A £5 ($6) purchase turned into a major windfall for one family following an auction in London on Tuesday. The Lewis Warder, one of the most famous chess pieces in the world, sold for £735,000 ...
Sotheby's has determined that a figurine a Scottish antique dealer bought in 1964 is actually a 900-year-old Viking chess piece — one of five missing from 4 chess sets. . A small carved figure sat in ...
A newly discovered medieval chess piece attributed to the Lewis Chessmen trove, which had been tucked away in a drawer for years after being purchased for just £5 (about $6) in 1964, sold for £735,000 ...
The Lewis Chessmen Unmasked exhibition in Edinburgh brings together the British Museum and the National Museum of Scotland’s collections of the Lewis Chessmen – a set of medieval gaming pieces, ...
New research has cast doubt on traditional theories about the historic Lewis Chessmen. The 93 pieces - currently split between museums in Edinburgh and London - were discovered on Lewis in 1831. But ...
In 1972 the world was gripped by one of the great battles of the Cold War. It was fought in Iceland and it was a chess match - one between the American Bobby Fischer and the Russian Boris Spassky.
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