We have concentrated entirely on the history of the origin and evolution
of chess and the description of chess sets and chess pieces.
Unlike other books in this field we made a classification into centuries
and subsequently into countries in a systematic way. Each century starts
with an introduction in which the most important cultural, social and
scientific developments in that period are described and the influence
it had on the design of chess pieces. In the book many sets of our own
collection will be shown and described in addition to many world famous
chess sets. Dozens of museums have made contributions to the realisation
of this book, including the Louvre, the British Museum, the Hermitage and
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
With the book comes a special CD. The CD contains many close-ups of
the chess pieces shown and also historical information about the cities
where the chess sets were made during the centuries.