Antonia Hoyle waits for an opponent to play chess at the new concrete outdoor chess board, Pearson Park, Hull - Asadour Guzelian Pearson Park, 11am. A duck paddles furiously across the serpentine lake ...

Chess is a game of skill, patience, and tact. So it’s no surprise that when it comes to the production of some of the world’s most exclusive and luxurious chess tables, those same principles apply.

In the 1920s, Marcel Duchamp claimed to no longer be making art, and began to devote considerable time to chess. He’d grown up battling with his older brothers, Raymond and Jacques, and in his later ...