Als passionierte Boardgame-Spielerin teile ich den Call for Blogposts @BoardgameHisto nur allzu gerne: "Mehr als nur Zeitvertreib? Wissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf analoge Spiele" bghistorian.hypotheses.org/816
Das Gemälde „Lavater und Lessing bei Moses Mendelssohn“ (1856) von Moritz Daniel Oppenheim ist ab jetzt in der JMB-#Dauerausstellung zu sehen. Es zeigt eine fiktive Szene zwischen den 3 Philosophen und ist eine Leihgabe der @magnes Collection of Jewish Art & Life in Berkeley/USA.
The concert pianist and chess master Ladislaus Döry von Jobaháza who was sentenced to death in 1943 and freed in 1945. Döry was a great-grandnephew of Mozart's friend Raymund Wetzlar von Plankenstern. #chess #chesshistory
Seit rund 1 500 Jahren prägt das Schachspiel die Kulturen. Doch warum übt das königliche Spiel eine derartige Faszination und Anziehungskraft aus? Dieser Frage widmet sich seit heute die Sonderausstellung „Schach.
Considered the father of positional play, French player Francois-Andre Philidor (1726-1795) was the first to develop and publish modern strategical chess ideas as we study them today.
De geschiedenis van Groningen in beeld gebracht door de Groninger Archieven en het Noordelijk Scheepvaartmuseum/Museum aan de A. Deze week: Grootmeesters in de Korenbeurs.
In his will, the legendary Viennese chess patron Leopold Trebitsch left his "chess friend" Hugo Fähndrich an annual pension of 1600 Kronen. #chess #chesshistory
Different cultures, different games, same circular motifs..
Two dice, one from Gandhara (elongated), c. 1st–3rd century (MET), one Roman 79 AD (British M) Two chess pieces, a Bishop from Islamic Lands c. 8th–10th century (MET) and a Knight from Tønsberg c. 1200 Norway (NIKU).
Mr Staunton’s victory over M. St Amant transferred to England, for the first time, the sceptre that had been successively wielded by Spain, Italy and France for the last 300 years. #itscominghome
Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1535-1625). Partita a scacchi, 1555
She was one of the few well known female artists of the Italian and Spanish Renaissance. Depicted playing are three of her own sisters, predating the Polgars more than 400 years!
George Bernard Shaw and his wife playing chess, 1907, by Alfred Stieglitz. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond.
Wir nehmen unseren Präsenz-Spielbetrieb im Bürgerhaus Grone wieder auf. Start: Donnerstag, 15.07.2021 um 19.30 Uhr mit unserem Vereinsabend. (Die Trainingsgruppen von Tamara Klink werden nach den Sommerferien ab dem 02.09.2021 #Schach #Göttingen
Chess in Codex Buranus (Carmina Burana: Songs from Beuern). An illuminated manuscript of 254 poems and dramatic irreverent, satirical, and critical texts. 11th-12th century, and perhaps 13th century, Austria. f. 92
"Ssangryuk (or Ssanguk) is a game using dice, most commonly played in winter... It has...30 horses and 2 dice. The board... is on average 80x40cm. A die is about 1 cm³ and is made from ivory or bone. Tiger bone is preferred."
Codex Manesse, book of songs & poetry, dated between 1304 and 1340; the most comprehensive collection of ballads and poetry in Middle High German language. Made in Zürich, for the Manesse family.
Otto IV, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal, playing chess.
Painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1800-1882) portraying the meeting of scholars Moses Mendelsohn (1729-1786), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) and theologian Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) in Berlin (1763).
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