"Captain America: Civil War" is a masterfully rendered and edited $250 million movie, but the production team might have put a little more thought into the chess pieces. A chess board in the ...

A famous chess match was the central theme, with each move shown on a different chessboard, a wonderfully inventive idea. A set of Lewis chessmen was there, and I asked the curator whence it had come.

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 ...

The rook was a lost piece from the Lewis Chessmen, a Viking-era hoard discovered in 1831. ... But the warder and four other chess pieces were scattered and lost to lore of a shipwreck.

The Lewis chessmen have achieved an almost mythical status in British culture: Ron, Harry and Hermione battle an enchanted version of the chess set in the 2001 film adaptation of Harry Potter and ...