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Chess is much loved both by young and old alike and it is a joy to play chess with a beautiful set on a beautiful chess table whatever the time or season. While it led once as an intellectuals only game catering to high brow society, many people today know how to play and enjoy the game. True connoisseurs of the game will revel of the fine selections below and enjoy playing this game on one of these canvases. Square design adds style and makes it easily accessible. Square profile makes this an exceptional accent piece.

Game Table w Chess Board
$267.31 (List: $445.51)

Game Table w Pieces- La Questa
$439.00 (List: $658.50)

Four in One Game Table, Chess, Checkers, Backgammon
$120.83 (List: $193.33)

Black Finish Game Table w Pieces for Checkers, Backgammon & Chess
$463.00 (List: $694.50)

Antique Pedestal Game Table w Marble Top
$1,151.92 (List: $1,727.88)

Victorian Game Table w Vine Details
$480.77 (List: $721.15)

Antique Chess Table w Fold-in Corners
$959.61 (List: $1,439.42)

5 stars

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Leather Card Table w/ Cork Corners
$1,180.00 (List: $1,770.00)

Hill Country Small Chess Table
$273.00 (List: $412.50)

Mahogany Game Table w Pieces & Storage
$481.00 (List: $721.50)

4 stars

(1 Rating)

Square Game Table w Removable Top & Corner Ash Trays
$575.00 (List: $862.50)

Masterpiece Game Table w Antique Black Finish
$277.64 (List: $416.46)

4 stars

(1 Rating)

Solid Wood End Table w Pull-Out Game Board & Drawers
$480.77 (List: $721.15)

The Artistic Table Game Table, Chess/Checkers
$416.67 (List: $666.67)

Carved Detail Game Table, Pieces Included - Beacon Hill
$612.00 (List: $918.00)

Wood Game Table w Cross Trestle Base
$1,151.92 (List: $1,727.88)

Hill Country Medium Chess Table
$1,066.98 (List: $1,600.46)

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Chess has been called "the Olympics of the mind" and keeping a chess table handy is a great way to ensure that you take up every opportunity to sharpen up your logical reasoning skills. Chess is the oldest game of skill played in the world, but it is much more than that. Chess is also a fascinating history lesson in miniature and it tells us much about how people lived in earlier times. No-one know for sure where chess originated, it is so old, but it is well documented to have been played for centuries in the same basic form played today with variations in naming and design but little else, in the most ancient of times in China, India, and Persia.

The game therefore was already popular and well established when it came to Europe via Spain with the Moors in the tenth or eleventh century (The movie 'El Cid' was set in Spain at this time, 'cid' being a moorish word meaning 'chief' or 'lord') and once the Spanish got the chess playing bug the rest of Europe and the West wasn't far behind. The chess set we see today refelects European 'modernisations' on the basic imported theme and the knights and bishops, kings and queens and castles have a medieval flavor which is a European refinement to that original Middle Eastern import. The Europeans found the piece names hard to pronounce and they represented a social order and culture which was of course entirely different to that to be found in Europe.

Chess tells us a great deal about the social order of the people who originated it. Pawns represent the lowest members of society, serfs and laborers. The castle represents the fortified home. The knight represents the professional soldier of olden times who was important but also frequently sacrificed by his masters when the need arose!

The great authorities in medieval times were the church and the monarchy and these are represented by the central, most critical pieces in chess, the Bishops , kings and queens.

Products on this page:

Game Table w Chess Board
Game Table w Pieces- La Questa
Four in One Game Table, Chess, Checkers, Backgammon
Black Finish Game Table w Pieces for Checkers, Backgammon & Chess
Antique Pedestal Game Table w Marble Top
Victorian Game Table w Vine Details
Antique Chess Table w Fold-in Corners
Leather Card Table w/ Cork Corners
Hill Country Small Chess Table
Mahogany Game Table w Pieces & Storage
Square Game Table w Removable Top & Corner Ash Trays
Masterpiece Game Table w Antique Black Finish
Solid Wood End Table w Pull-Out Game Board & Drawers
The Artistic Table Game Table, Chess/Checkers
Carved Detail Game Table, Pieces Included - Beacon Hill
Wood Game Table w Cross Trestle Base
Hill Country Medium Chess Table

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