Chess in Scotland

Scotland’s greatest claim to chess fame may be the 12th Century Lewis chessmen that were discovered on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in 1831, while in the 1480s an inventory of Lindores Abbey mentioned „twa pairs of thabills wt thair men“ („two chessboards with their pieces“). It took until 1992 for Scotland to produce its first grandmasters, but the country has a rich chess history that Alan McGowan chronicles in the 13th and final installment of the #HeritageChess campaign, supported by the Lindores Abbey Preservation Society.

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