Carved chess set draws crowds to gallery You might not think a chess set would be the kind of show-stopping artwork that would double or triple the visitors to a small art gallery on Main Street in ...

A small object that was discovered in what's now southern Jordan seems to be the world's oldest known chess piece. The retangular piece of rock with two horn-shaped points on top looks like rooks, or ...

SAN DIEGO — A palm-sized sandstone object found in 1991 at an Early Islamic trading outpost in what’s now southern Jordan appears to be the oldest known chess piece. This roughly 1,300-year-old ...

The rook in question certainly wasn't the first chess piece ever created, but it may be the oldest found to date. John Peter Oleson Almost 30 years after its discovery, a small sandstone figurine ...

The small Great Southern town of Kendenup — population 1,000 — is honouring its school chess champions by turning old street trees into chess pieces. Students from the Kendenup Primary School have ...