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John Tenniel, the famous Victorian artist and cartoonist, illustrated the \"Alice in Wonderland\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\" \u003c\/span\u003eand \"Alice Through the Looking Glass\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebooks and the designers have based the chess set pieces on his original illustrations. It continues to achieve record sales world-wide and is a MUST for every chess set enthusiast and collector. Made entirely by skilled craftsmen, each chess set piece is polished and finely decorated by artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Through the Looking Glass\" has as part of its basic structural theme a game of chess in which Alice, as the White Queen's pawn, advances to the eighth square where she herself becomes a Queen. The White King and the Red King are the king, with Alice, of course as the queen. Hatta the messenger serves as the bishop and the White Knight stands for the kinght. 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