Early in 2023, a 33-year-old home-design content creator named Justin Miller bought an old chair on Facebook Marketplace for $50. In June, he sold it for 1,700 times that amount -- $85,000 plus ...

Weight: Chess pieces should feel weighty and solid so they stay firmly in place on the board. For this reason, many wooden pieces include weights at the bottom. Sets made specifically for travel ...

People have been interested in chess-playing computers before there were any chess-playing computers. In a 1950 paper, [Claude Shannon] defined two major chess-playing strategies. Apparently, pract… ...

Few could imagine playing with $13,000 pieces made from the 40,000-year-old skeleton of a wooly mammoth, either. The company sells the sets to a select few.

Items typically fall into two categories: vintage pieces, which are 25 years and older, or antiques, which are more than 100 years old.