Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: With every shaving and small incision, master artisans turn these trunks of wood into 32 hand-carved chess pieces. You can pick up a plastic set ...

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 ...

The 1,000-year-old chess piece stands just over an inch and a half tall. ... At the time the knight was carved, the game of chess was still relatively new to Europe.

For chess players, the board and the 32 pieces are often far more than just the tools of their trade. In that sense, Gukesh touching the pieces and seeking their blessings was nothing out of the ...

Back in 1918, Duchamp had produced a hand-carved chess set while on sabbatical in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This set, as wood carver and Duchamp aficionado Dan Weber rightly observed on his blog.

A long-lost Viking chess piece, carved from walrus ivory and worth up to 1 million British pounds ($1.8 million), has been found in an antique dealer's drawer. The Lewis Chessmen are intricate ...