The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Alastair B. A twelfth-century treatise by Alexander Neckham refers to another legend in which a chess piece was hurled as a murder weapon-suggesting a piece of considerable size and weight, perhaps like this heavy ivory piece from Sicily in the Metropolitan's collection:Ĭhess piece, bishop, 8th–10th century. Olaf's Saga (written about 1230), King Knut murdered a chess opponent, Jarl Ulf, in 1027 following a dispute during a match.
But, if one is to believe medieval legend, even such mock battles could provoke intense competition. In a chess match, opponents simulate a battle between warring kingdoms.
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