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Rare Chess Piece Found, Could Fetch $1M at Auction
Rare Chess Piece Found, Could Fetch $1M at Auction
Rare Chess Piece Found, Could Fetch $1M at Auction
LONDON (AP) — A chess piece purchased for a few pounds by an antiques dealer in Scotland in 1964 has been identified as one of the 900-year-old Lewis Chessmen, among the greatest artifacts of the Viking era. Sotheby's auction house said Monday that the chess piece is expected to bring between 600,000 pounds ($670,000) and 1 million pounds ($1...
Watch a 10-Year-Old Beat an International Chess Master
Watch a 10-Year-Old Beat an International Chess Master
Watch a 10-Year-Old Beat an International Chess Master
This could be an advertisement for 7Up, if it weren't more than four minutes long. Here is International Master Greg Shahade playing a quick pick-up blitz game of chess against a 10-year-old ... who wins in no time. Props to Shahade for displaying such good sportsmanship, and props to the little boy, Samuel Sevian, who is now an IM himself...