The warder is the first of five missing pieces to materialize since the remaining chessmen’s discovery in 1831 Courtesy of Sotheby's In 1964, an antiques dealer from Edinburgh, Scotland, spent ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A medieval chess piece, one of five that have been missing for nearly two centuries, was chilling ...

A medieval chess piece which has been missing for nearly 200 years is set to rake in £1 million at auction. The family in possession of the treasured piece had kept it in a draw for 50 years before ...

(CNN)-- A $6 purchase turned into a major windfall for one family following an auction in London on Tuesday. The Lewis Warder, one of the most famous chess pieces in the world, sold for $929,000 at ...

Everybody needs a chess set. And if you’re going to have a chess set, it might as well be a fun chess set, like MakerBot’s Dragons of Glastonbury chess set. That way, if you get bored playing chess, ...

Chess doesn’t rank as better than those? When IBM wanted to prove they had a smart robot, they made it good at chess! If a robot is good at chess, it’s good at anything and will soon turn humanity ...

An ivory chess piece which was bought for just £5 and languished in a drawer for decades could net its owners £1m after they discovered it was actually one of the long-lost chessmen from a ...

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Joe Grantham is a contributor from the UK with a degree in Classical Studies. His love for gaming is only rivaled by a deep passion for medieval history, which often seeps into his articles. With over ...

(CNN) -- A £5 ($6) purchase turned into a major windfall for one family following an auction in London on Tuesday. The Lewis Warder, one of the most famous chess pieces in the world, sold for £735,000 ...