How Wooden Championship Chess Sets Are Made
Business Insider took a look at the incredibly detailed process by which wooden World Championship Chess sets are made. Each piece is hand-carved by an…
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A Retro ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Pixel Art Computer Chess Game That Uses Only One Kilobyte of JavaScript
The Kilobyte’s Gambit by Matt Round of the entertainment site VoleWTF is an online computer Chess game that features pixel art from different scenes of…
A Clever Illusion of a Phantom Queen Appearing Only in a Mirror Reflection During a Game of Chess
Matt Pritchard created the illusion of "The Phantom Queen" appearing only in a mirror facing the chessboard but not on the board itself.
A Printable One-Dimensional Chess Game By Doc Pop
Doc Pop, an artist, musician, performer and good friend of Laughing Squid has put a unique twist on the classic game of chess by making…
How ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Celebrates the Symmetrical Solitary Beauty Within the Game of Chess
Daniel Netzel of Film Radar explores how the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit captures and celebrates the beauty within the game of chess. Netzel looks…
How ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Was Brought to Vivid Life
Netflix went behind the scenes of the sublime 2020 miniseries The Queen’s Gambit to talk with creator Scott Frank, actors Anya Taylor-Joy and Thomas Brodie-Sangster,…
Young Chess Players Offer Charming Insight Into the Game in the Short Film ‘The Magic of Chess’
screenshot via “The Magic of Chess” “The Magic of Chess” by Jenny Schweitzer-Bell is a short insightful film in which young children at the 2019…
An Ingenious Kinetic Chess Set Based on the Folding Principles of Origami for Easy Portability
Brian Ignaut, a talented engineer who previously designed unfolding solar arrays for SpaceX, has designed an absolutely ingenious kinetic chess set that is based upon…
An Animated History Explaining the Origins of Chess
In a tactical Ted Ed video essay written by Alex Gendler and animated by Remus Buznea and Kyra Kupetsky, narrator Adrian Dannatt explains the origins…
An Incredible Machine Driven by Gears That Visualizes the Number Googol (Ten to the 100th Power)
To celebrate one billion seconds of his life, Daniel de Bruin built a gear-driven machine that visualizes the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.