Checkers is used on a chess board, but the game chess does not use checkers.
Resignation - "I resign" is the term that is used when quitting a game of chess.
An electronic chess set contains a database or rules and game moves. These can be used to improve your game without the eyestrain that a computer chess game can cause.
The chess fork is usually used at least once in every chess game. There is not a known number.
A fairy chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess, but used in certain chess variants and some chess problems. These pieces vary in movement abilities and possible additional properties.
It could be, but at straightupchess.com the vertical board can be used to display a chess set and to play a casual game of chess on the wall mounted chess board.
"Staunton" is the name of the chess set style that must be used in official chess competitions.
The first form of chess was invented in India. The rules of the game we play today were finalized in the 1490's.
Chess is similar to checkers. They can be played on the same board.
Of course. Chess was still "growing up" back then, but people were playing and enjoying the game. It's standing as a national and international event was blooming fiercely. It was in the Victorian era that chess evolved into the form in which we see it today, and more and more people took up the game.
A ten minute chess game is a blitz game of chess.
The first game of chess was played in India.