Exquisitely Hand Carved Detailed Sheesham Wood Chess Pieces & Wooden Board Chess Set 14" Very Fine Handcrafted & Detailed Chess Pieces made by skilled Artisans of India Exceptional Master Piece ...

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 for $20, but a wooden set certified for ...

The “iconic” Lewis chessmen have been redisplayed in a case which allows visitors to see their backs for the first time. The display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh means people can ...

Trondheim was one of the great centres for carving walrus ivory, and the style of the Lewis Chessmen is very close to pieces made there. We know that similar chess pieces have also been found in ...

Chess-piece manufacturers have been working generation after generation, painstakingly carving individual pieces with simple ...

ivory traded for religious purposes doesn’t garner the aggressive scrutiny it might if it were carved into, say, chess pieces. God’s ivory has its own loophole. CHINA’S IVORY FACTORIES ...

"The robot broke the child's finger," Sergey Lazarev, Moscow Chess Federation President ... Ten of the intricately-carved pieces have been redisplayed in a case which allows visitors to see ...

"Chess is very useful for everyday life ... Ten of the intricately-carved pieces have been redisplayed in a case which allows visitors to see their backs for the first time.

The chess pieces are intricately carved (Stewart Attwood/PA) Ten of the pieces from the NMS collection have now been redisplayed, with new lighting, layout and refreshed interpretation.

Trondheim was one of the great centres for carving walrus ivory, and the style of the Lewis Chessmen is very close to pieces made there. We know that similar chess pieces have also been found in ...