Chess: a game for many, sometimes a luxury for a few
The origin of chess is lost in the mists of time, although their spread in Europe goes back a few years after the stroke of the millennium.
Starting from Spain, at that time under Arab rule, the game spread to neighboring countries and Central Europe. At that time the rules were not yet established and for a period of about five centuries, followed each other definitions, adjustments, changes. Since the end of the fifteenth century took the initiation of strict rules that, despite some variations, were similar to those of today. Indeed, the current rules of the game just come from a variant of that.
The game is, as the price affordable by all, but it is very complex, requires deep reflection, strategies and processes. Not all are able to play. It takes fine minds to make a good chess player.
The chessboard and its pieces can be performed in a wide variety of materials. It starts in fact from stone, metal, glass and leather, up to the wood or plastic. If the first materials are mostly used for the preparation of decorative elements, the latter is used in the daily game.
But there is always someone to wonder and to admire the performances of luxury, making these objects, something available to very few. Such as a checkerboard made on the surface of a table, for which a well-known sculptor has created pieces that evoke medieval warriors and situations. They are bronze with gold plating or silver and cost of eighty thousand Euros. This is your exclusive luxury.
