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chesspiece

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chesspiece [ˈtʃɛsˌpiːs]
n
(Group Games / Chess & Draughts) any of the eight pieces (excluding the pawns) used by each player in a game of chess


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Come and make a giant horse inspired by the Lewis chesspieces.
The little knight on horseback, recently found by an amateur using a metal detector on farmland in north Nottinghamshire, is startlingly similar to chesspieces found hundreds of miles away in 1831, on a beach on the isle of Lewis.
For example, in his film Chesspiece in which he was playing chess with Teeny Duchamp with a camera mounted above them, ninety-five percent of the film is over or underexposed, in pure white or pure black.
 
 
 
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