chess

A West End quality show in the most intimate of settings.

Sixteen contemporary artists have created chess sets in their signature styles.

Diving chess, anyone?

By genewolf under a CC licence The London Chess Classic folded up its boards last night as Londoner, Luke McShane walked off with the best prize we’ve ever heard of, the “Brilliancy prize” for this game. We haven’t a clue what it means but we’re …

Seventeen of Wanstead’s finest pawn-pushers were no match for Grandmaster Peter Wells last night, according to the Epping Forest Guardian (we assume – This is Local London insist on checkmating readers by not citing source publications). The chess wizard demonstrated his massively parallel multiprocessing skills …

The Tournament is an installation created by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón for the London Design Festival. The gigantic chess set is made of 2m-high ceramic pieces on a specially created mosaic glass chess board. Each of the 32 chess pieces, the designs of which were …