Chess Moves – the Rook

The Rook is the next most valuable chess piece after the Queen. It is considered a “chess heavy” along with the queen. The reason these two pieces are considered chess heavies is because either of these chess pieces along with the King can put the opponent’s King in checkmate, something none of the other pieces [...]

Genuine Leather

Chess boards come in a variety of different materials. Some are made from wood, some from marble, some from resin, some from glass and other materials. One of my favorite chess board materials is pressed leather. I love the feel of the leather, the look of the leather and the smell of the leather.
Customizing a [...]

Board Games Bring the Family Together

I’m going to come clean right off the bat. That wooden chess set you see sitting on the bookshelf? It’s there for purely decorative purposes. I haven’t played the game in years, nor would I remember how without some serious prompting and time to refresh my memory. Still, I’ve come to respect the chess set [...]

Chess Moves – The Queen

The Queen is the most powerful of all the chess game pieces, also making her the most valuable chess piece, other than the King, of course. This is because of her mobility. The Queen can move any number of squares in any direction. Her only limitation is that she cannot jump over pieces.
Because the queen [...]

Wobble Chess

I am always interested in new, interesteing and unique chess sets. It tickles me. Recently seen on the market is the new Wobble Chess set.

Wobble Chess set is a wooden chess set with concaved squares. Wobble Chess pieces have curved, or rounded chrome bottoms that fit within the concaved square. The pieces wobble and are [...]

Staunton Chess Pieces

If you have played chess for any amount of time, I ‘m sure you’ve heard of Staunton Chess Pieces. Staunton Chess Pieces are a style of chess pieces design by Nathaniel Cook and named after Howard Staunton, considered to be one of the best chess players in the mid 1800’s.
Staunton chess pieces became popular very [...]

Chess Moves – The King

The King, as you probably suspect, is the most important of all chess pieces. It is not, however, the most

Appreciating the Artistic Side of Chess

One minute I was online looking for an elegant end table for the living room, and the next I had found a Christmas present for my daughter. Knowing that she was an aspiring chess player, I figured I could kill two birds with one stone. The wooden chess

Variations of Chess – Fischer Random Chess

Back in his day, Bobby Fischer, one of the world’s greatest ever chess players, invented Fischer Random Chess. This is a variant of regular chess where the beginning positions of the pieces are placed at random. This can be played with any standard chess set yet provides more challenge.
Fischer’s idea was to eliminate prepared and [...]

Chess Sets for Namibia

Near the end of October 2009, Bank Windhoek gave over 550 chess sets to the Namibian Chess Federation (NFC). These sets were distributed to about 100 schools in the south of Namibia, by the Namibian Schools Sports Union. In 2008, the NFC, with help from Bank Windhoek distributed 1000 chess sets to schools in the [...]

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