A medieval chess piece from the famed Lewis Chessman trove, the most revered collection of chess pieces in the world, first discovered on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides in 1831, is ...

Today, for the first time, I got to see some of the magnificent Lewis chess pieces first-hand, in Edinburgh's National Museum of Scotland. I wrote about them in my book The Immortal Game (excerpt ...

A Scottish family just struck gold, after a chess piece originally purchased for around six dollars sold at auction for £735,000 (approximately $923,000 at current exchange). The hefty price tag is ...

This family were totally unaware that this ordinary-looking object was worth $1.8 million. Then they made a shock discovery. The Edinburgh family’s grandfather, an antiques dealer, had bought the ...

The most famous chess pieces in the world were carved from walrus ivory during the Middle Ages, but much of their history is still unknown. The Lewis Chessmen are the most important chess pieces in ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — It was a good photo op. To think it would lead to anything more seemed unrealistic, a sure path to disappointment. Lennox Lewis, world heavyweight champion and a devoted chess player, ...

This obituary is part of “We Will Remember,” a series about those we’ve lost to the coronavirus. Malcolm Allen Lewis of Southfield was a dedicated chess instructor who was instrumental in leading ...