Chess games can last anywhere from a minute to several hours, so having the best chess set is a necessity. But what makes a chess set best? Well, like most tabletop games, all chess sets include ...

Buying a good chess set is, however, slightly more involved ... hard to remember whether Harry and Hagrid are supposed to be a rook or a king. Luckily, as fans of the book series and movies ...

and rook, respectively. By the 19th century, chess clubs and competitions began to appear all around the world, it became necessary to use a standardized set that would enable players from ...

rook, knight, bishop, queen and king) easily distinguishable from each other. Head on over to CMB for lots more photos and details on how this amazing chess set was made.

it's spot-on for rooks in the earliest known chess sets, where those swift-moving pieces were shaped to evoke horse-drawn chariots. (The word "rook" comes from "rukh," the Persian word for chariot.) ...

Man Ray designed this chess set in 1920 using found objects from his studio. Most of the pieces are geometric models made for still-life drawing (the king is a pyramid, the queen a cone, the rook ...

Jonah Rowen, "A Staunton Chess Set Cut Into Halves and Then Put Back ... while Andrew Kovac's "Castle" scales up a single piece, reimagining the rook as something from a monstrous wonderland ...