“Before we knew chess, many [of us] were listless ... Pieces are exchanged over bawdy jokes on the black-and-white board between them. Twenty-five years ago, Vallur was fighting for his ...

A chess board consists of eight rows and eight columns, or 64 squares in total. Half the squares are white, and the rest are black. There are two armies on the board, one white and the other black.

In Star Trek franchise, there is no dearth of interesting props and the tri-dimensional chess is one such artifact that continues to spark curiosity among the Trekkies.