The Sicilian series chessmen with Rosewood board that has been presented to me for review has been done so extremely well. The chessmen come in a white box with the recognisable branding on the front. There is no doubt that this is a Regency Chess...

How hard can it be? Essentially a chess board is a large square with squares on it. Of course it’s way more complicated than that. Before the Far Eastern mass produced boards came along choosing was pretty much without risk. These days you have to be...

The Christmas season is looming ever closer and it will soon be time to begin thinking about buying presents for our loved ones, and not so loved ones! For those relatives you are not too keen on we would always advise socks and pants, maybe some soaps...

Classic Chess sets, such as the Staunton variety, tend to involve looking back into the past, as opposed to the future. We seldom think about what will become of our luxury chess sets, but it stands to reason that the really high quality and super...

Chess players don’t come much more interesting than Alexandra Kosteniuk, the Russian born grandmaster who is rapidly emerging as a key figure in the chess world. Alexandra was born in the Russian city of Perm in 1984. At the age of just five her father...