At Home with the Chess Pieces

A palace of six rooms where chess pieces live as medieval characters, with checked floors and heraldic banners. Top left, a rook-helmeted figure carries a cake toward a feast table in front of castle towers and a golden trophy urn. In the middle, a queen and two attendants study a kingdom map above a game table. On the right, a bearded king in a red cloak holds a glowing orb at a lectern under chessboard diagrams and numbered tiles. Downstairs on the left, round-headed pawns hold up numbered discs while a scribe on a platform reads a scroll. In the middle room two armoured knights duel with lances beside a helmet on a pedestal, horses painted behind. At the right, a bishop in a mitre arranges coloured blocks while a boy writes on a blackboard. The checks tile naturally across every floor.