Narrator: With every shaving and small incision, master artisans turn these trunks of wood into 32 hand-carved chess pieces. You can pick up a plastic set for $20, but a wooden set certified for ...

It was unusually quiet, save for the clacking of plastic pieces moving across chess boards, in the cafeteria of the Academic and Behavioral Schools East Campus, where nearly 30 students piled into ...

Things have changed since then for the better. Wooden chess sets are usually more expensive than the hard plastic ones. The four knights of a wooden chess set can cost as much as half of the entire ...