A rare collection of chess exhibits

African Masks chess set

Animals of the North vs. Animals of the South chess set

Barleycorn chess set

Chess based on Manas, a Kyrgyz traditional epic poem

Chess set from besieged Leningrad

Chess table designed by Alexander Rodchenko

Electronica IM-01

Fattorini chess clock

Industry and Agriculture chess set

Invincible chess set

Chess sets come in all shapes and forms! Some are historical, some artistic, some practical to play, and others not so much

Mao Zedong’s chess set

Maritime Chess Set

Mikhail Chigorin’s Regence Chess Set

Mosaic chessboard

Napoleonic Chess Set: Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the War of 1812