If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Chess has been around for about 1,500 years, making it ...

LEGO patented its signature "binding brick" in 1958. But it wasn't until nearly 50 years later, in 2005, that LEGO released its first official chess build. I learned this fact while researching this ...

The new LEGO Traditional Chess Set is a clean, simple build. Its squares are colored dark brown and beige, which creates the impression of polished wood. Its pieces match and have a smooth, simple ...

The Harry Potter GoChess Wizard Lite is one of those products that instantly tells you who it’s for. It is not trying to be a minimalist tournament board for purists. Nor is it trying to replace a ...

Chess is a relatively simple game to learn but a very difficult one to master. Because the starting positions of the pieces are fixed, top players have relied on memorizing the "best" opening moves, ...

Chess players searching for a compact portable chess set may be interested in the new Kickstarter campaign for the Crownes Chess set. Offering three different versions, the nesting chess set is ...