This is my lovely chess board from Poland, hand carved wood pieces.....it's my favorite board in the world even though it only cost me about $5.00......
You will be led to the knowledge of the internal things which are invisible to you, by the external things which you see before you. . . . Even so then, we can represent to ourselves in thought the Author of all that is, by contemplating and admiring the (visible) things which He has made, and ever brings into being.
- Hermes