A family renovating their property in Lincolnshire were in for a surprise when they stumbled across two nineteenth century chess pieces. The chess pieces - a Queen and Bishop - date from around 1850, ...

In the mid 19th century, someone tucked two chess pieces into the wooden beam of a barn in Lincolnshire, a county in eastern England. There the little figurines stayed, unnoticed, for some 170 years.

William Davies Evans must rank as one of the most influential – yet overlooked – Welshmen of all time. In the 1820s, he gave the ancient game of chess a new lease of life and helped turn it into the ...

Playing chess with an unseen opponent, though common enough online today, has a long history: games by correspondence date back to 1119, when Henry I of England played Louis VI of France. Chess ...