Great chess
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Great chess or Large chess is a family of large board historical chess variants which were played in the Middle East and Central Asia. Great chess includes variants played on larger chessboards like T
12th century Iranian shatranj set from Nishapur.
Left to right: the faras (knight), zurafa (giraffe), pil (elephant), and tali'a (picket)
Timur The Conqueror, the eponym of the game
Chess piece
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A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one of six types: king, queen, rook, bishop, knight
Polish Węgiel pieces
Original Staunton chess pieces Left to right: pawn, rook, knight, bishop, queen, king
A pawn of quartz from 10th–11th century (Fatimid Egypt?). Islamic chess sets favored abstract designs.
A knight made around 1250 in London, England. The knight is battling a dragon.