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  2. House of Staunton - Wikipedia

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    HOS Brighton chess set with pieces made of rosewood. The HOS specializes in the manufacture of Staunton chess sets. [5] They offer a wide range of chess sets including older chess sets, which would have been used in the past centuries, including but not limited to: the English Barleycorn chess set, the St. George chess set, the French Regence chess set and the Selenus chess set.

  3. Staunton chess set - Wikipedia

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    The Staunton chess set is the standard style of chess pieces, [1] [2] recommended for use in competition since 2022 by FIDE, the international chess governing body. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The journalist Nathaniel Cooke is credited with the design on the patent, and they are named after the leading English chess master Howard Staunton , who endorsed it ...

  4. Chess set - Wikipedia

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    A container for holding chess pieces is known as a chess box. [16] Most commonly made of wood, a chess box can be constructed of any material. The internal box configuration can be individual slots for each chess piece, one divider to separate the white and black pieces or no divider with the chess pieces mixed together.

  5. The Most Unique Chess Sets For Every Type of Pop ... - AOL

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    Unless you’re Beth Harmon on “Queen’s Gambit” — high on a mix of Librium and unrelenting ambition — then you probably can’t play an entire game of chess on the ceiling, from the ...

  6. ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ has chess sets selling out everywhere ...

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    The public’s sudden interest in the cognitive board game was made popular solely thanks to the October-released Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, and it’s been such a hit that chess sets ...

  7. The 8 Best Movie-Themed Chess Sets to Buy Online - AOL

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    For novice and skilled player and collectors, we searched the web to find the coolest, most unique chess sets that movie buffs will love. For novice and skilled player and collectors, we searched ...

  8. Dubrovnik chess set - Wikipedia

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    The Dubrovnik design has influenced the creation of several chess set variants with a variety of names, including but not limited to, Zagreb and Yugoslavia. [4] These variant chess sets often have opposite-coloured finials on the kings and queens, while the original Dubrovnik had opposite-coloured finials for the bishops.

  9. Josef Hartwig - Wikipedia

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    The chess sets were sold in two versions, a "daily use" version (Gebrauchsspiel) which cost 51 Marks, and a hand-made "luxury" version (Luxusspiel) which used more expensive types of wood and cost 155 Marks. As was the case with most Bauhaus products, this was too expensive for most consumers, and the chess sets remained a luxury item sold in ...