Danny Rensch gets sweaty when he plays chess. He gets especially sweaty when he plays a version of the game that has chess’s best and brightest dashing around a giant board, doing push-ups on ...

Heat of more than 100 degrees earlier this week did not keep people from standing in the sun and moving giant chess pieces around on the black-and-white checkerboard painted on the concrete in front ...

Two players calling the moves while the human chess pieces carry them out on the giant board during the ‘Checkmate SMA’ event in Subang Jaya. — Photos: LOW LAY PHON/The Star A BATTLE unfolded on a ...

Ronan John admires his giant chess board Monday, Oct. 6, 2025, at Davy Memorial Park in downtown Moorhead. He spent the last two years designing and building the board for his Eagle Scout project.

A giant chess set was unveiled today in central London sparking interest from would-be grand masters and tourists. The 32-piece set, featuring two-metre high ceramic pieces on a glass chess board, was ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – They say life is like a game of chess, and that might be particularly true for those who stroll through downtown Grand Rapids from now on. A giant chess set was rolled out Thursday ...

THOMASVILLE, Pa. — York County native Tim Myers grew up playing chess with his dad and fixing up farm equipment. Now, he's combined these two passions by creating chess pieces out of scrap metal, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. June 2018 Giant Chess board and players at the Hirschgarten Park Munich Upper Bavaria Germany In competitive chess, where the ...

They say there's an art to the game of chess, and one woman who seems to have found it is Seattle sculptor Pamela Mummy. Mummy spent 6 months creating this giant chess set filled with the faces of her ...

This bizarre and highly controversial enclave, found in the impoverished city of Elista, Kalmykia in Russia, is devoted entirely to the game of chess. Home to public life-sized chess boards, a ...