If you're pondering over a gift to give a chess-loving, mechanically minded friend this holiday season, you could do worse than a chess set made of nuts, bolts, and washers.

A homemade chess board is a wonderful present for a game lover. We ve used traditional black and white for the board, with a soft, dark grey for the black chess pieces.

1. Begin by preparing the chess pieces for painting. We’ve recycled an old chess set, but make sure you have a full set before you start. You should have eight pawns, two rooks, two knights, two ...

The set has 20,000 diamonds of different sizes across the 32 pieces; that's a lot of stone setting. It took around 3 months to make.

Chess is an intimidating game, but choosing the right set for you doesn't have to be. Home and competition chess sets for beginners You can find bargain basement sets at just about any department ...

Chess can be intimidating but buying a set doesn’t have to be. We talked to one of the last chess-shop owners in NYC to get tips on how to select one for you.

This has to be one of the coolest chess sets we have seen on Geeky Gadgets, almost as cool as the Super Mario chess set, the Chainmail Chess Set.