Eight Facts About the Staunton Chess Set
If you asked anyone in the world to draw a chess piece, odds are they’d draw something from the Staunton set. Even the vast majority of chess clipart mimics Staunton chess pieces! Because the pieces are easy to recognize no matter where you’re from, they’re on chess boards around the world. What you may not know is that the Staunton design has been the official standard for international play by FIDE since 1924.
