Historia szachów, czyli różne oblicza gotyku - Agnieszka Stempin | KONTEKST 82.2 [youtube video 69m40s] https://youtu.be/1w-QmNooILY #LewisChessmen #archaeologia

A VIRTUAL TOUR OF SCOTLAND

We retrace out steps down the Atlantic coast of Lewis to one of Scotland's most magnificent beaches: Uig Beach or Tràigh Uuige. This is perhaps best know as the place where the Lewis Chessmen, 93 carved Norse chess pieces, were found in a stone chamber beneath the dunes behind the beach. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/lewis/uig/index.html

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#Scotland #BUig #Beach #LewisChessmen #Lewis #WesternIsles #UndiscoveredScotland

I'm not completely on my own in front of the shop anyway. These guys are sitting next to me, guarding the shop.

#LewisChessmen

My mother wove me a chess board and bag for my #lewischessmen pieces and it looks stunning.

My mother wove me a #chess board for my #lewischessmen set. About 20" wide.

"When the #LewisChessmen were carved, the queen moved one space. per turn, and only on the diagonal, or “aslant,” as a thirteenth-century sermon explains, because “women are so greedy that they will take. nothing except by rapine and injustice.” The queen was the weakest piece on the board, even weaker than the king, and Western #chess players had no clue what to do with her. Mostly they kept her close to her king, ready to block a check by a rook."
@Argus