Xerses phus

2021-09-10 04:00:01

#ChessInVisualArts 21/n
Honoré Daumier
Chess players
Oil on canvas
ca. 1863-1867
Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, France
#chess #VisualArts #painting #DaumierHonoré #Daumier1863_1867

Howard Staunton

2021-09-09 13:40:04

The establishment of a Ladies’ Chess Club is an event in the history of the game and most pleasing evidence of the progress this fine intellectual discipline is making in society.

John McCafferty

2021-09-09 08:27:08

Kinderspiele or Children's Games, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1560.

He died #otd 9 Sep 1569.

A delight of detail and a delight of a subject. There are 83 different forms of play depicted in the picture.

(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie)

Xerses phus

2021-09-08 04:00:01

#ChessInVisualArts 20/n
A game of chess
Mirror case
Ivory
French (Paris)
about 1300
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
#chess #VisualArts #sculpture #MirrorCase1300 #MiddleAges

Xerses phus

2021-09-07 14:00:01

#LegendsOfChess 3/n
François-André Danican Philidor (1726-1795)
#OnThisDay in 1726 the French #composer, #ChessPlayer, 1st (unofficial) world chess champion and mastermind of modern chess Philidor was born.
#PhilidorFrançoisAndréDanican #Philidor #chess #WorldChessChampion

Howard Staunton

2021-09-07 09:40:02

STAUNTON’S CAUTIONS
Chess not with your wife, unless you can give her odds, and then take care not to overreach yourself.

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-09-06 21:56:07

This chess piece is a Rook(?), c. 13th century ivory, N Europe (UK?).

The piece has a life of its own, depicting a battle within the chess battle. Chess pieces were an opportunity for artisans to show their skills. This one is absolutely amazing.

Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai

Locus Ludi

2021-09-06 21:37:51

ERC LocusLudi/CIERGA XVI on Gods, Games... and Chance! Follow us tomorrow on our livestream with Typhaine Haziza, Ariane Tatti, Jörg Rüpke, Irad Malkin, Maria Chidiroglou and many others: rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2 #ERC_Research @AssociacaoLudus @ludocorpus @womeninclassics

Locus Ludi

2021-08-27 21:23:04

Has drawing lots and tossing dice to do with chance, luck - or gods? join us on 6-7 september to the hybrid conference on games and chance in Greece and Rome #ERC_Research @AssociacaoLudus @ludocorpus @MGSNwork @INHA_Fr @CARC_Oxford @OMChildhood @womeninclassics @UoRClassics

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-09-04 06:29:24

This chess set made of rock crystal is one of the earliest sets found in Europe. Originally in the Colegiata de San Pedro de Àger, it appeared in an inventary of belongings of Arnau Mir de Tost and his wife Arsenda, the year 1,068.

Museo Diocesano de Lleida

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-09-04 06:12:28

This chess piece is a King, dated 1100-1150, made of elephant ivory, from Southern Italy.

With several sculpted figures and decoration, it is a remarkable, delicate medieval piece.

Musée du Louvre

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-09-04 06:19:38

This chess piece is a King, (possibly Denmark), dated early 12th c. made of ivory; eyes inlaid w blue glass

What a terrific piece! It's like a mixed between medieval expressionism and modern cubism all in one terrifying looking King!

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts collection

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-09-04 06:15:43

This game piece (chess or backgammon) is dated 10th–11th century (or later), made of rock crystal, Western Islamic Lands.

Magical.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gareth Harney

2021-09-03 16:38:05

Roman anthropomorphic dice in the form of squatting figures. The silver dice work much like conventional dice, with their various sides numbered with 1 to 6 red dots. 1st-2nd century, British Museum

Hammer Horror Films

2021-09-03 20:05:43

Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff play a high stakes game of chess in 'The Black Cat' Universal (1934)

Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-09-03 12:23:25

How did the Jewish composer Ignaz Brüll sign his letters to friends? "Dein Nazi". #Chess

The Met: Asian Art

2021-09-03 07:11:03

Rattle in the Form of a Crouching Yaksha (Male Nature Spirit), 1st century B.C. metmuseum.org/art/collection… #asianart #themet

Olimpiu Di Luppi

2021-09-03 10:24:33

As these samples show, the archives of the Leo Tolstoy Museum in Moscow hold a dozen or so original photographs showing Tolstoy playing chess. tolstoymuseum.ru

Olimpiu Di Luppi

2021-09-03 10:15:46

"Anyone making a check of Tolstoy games runs into instant chaos." chesshistory.com/winter/extra/t…

Xerses phus

2021-09-03 08:11:28

#ChessInVisualArts 18a/n
Julian Wasser
Duchamp playing chess with a nude (Eve Babitz)
Duchamp Retrospective, Pasadena Art Museum, California, 1963
#chess #VisualArts #photography #MarcelDuchamp #DuchampMarcel #TheLargeGlass #EveBabitz #ChessPlayer #WasserJulian #Wasser1963

Lara Maiklem FSA - Mudlarking (London Mudlark)

2021-09-02 06:59:07

I’ve never lost my marbles, (not yet anyway) but I have found quite a few: glass, clay, ceramic, stone and a single precious marble marble. Here’s some, the rest are on display in the Mudlarking exhibition @Southwarkcathed

#mudlarking #larking

Olimpiu Di Luppi

2021-09-01 16:10:13

Four lesser known cartoons by Sigmund Jóhannsson published in "Morgunblaðið" in August and September 1972, during the Spassky versus Fischer match in Reykjavík.

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-09-01 08:56:34

Deccan painting, Prince and Princess playing chess, 19th century, India

What a delicate and serene scene; I love the curvature of the horizon!

Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad

Xerses phus

2021-09-01 04:00:01

#ChessInVisualArts 17/n
Moritz Retzsch
The chess players
Oil on panel
1831
Private collection
#chess #VisualArts #painting #RetzschMoritz #Retzsch1831 #ChessPlayer

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-08-31 10:56:17

Chess imagery brings echos of 17,000 years; then, the cave of Lascaux was a favorite art venue for the Paleolithic artist. These horse heads are an amazing prelude!

Olimpiu Di Luppi

2021-08-30 09:26:28

Efim Bogoljubow during a 1933 visit in Ströbeck, a German village renowned for its chess traditions dating back to King Otto III in the late 900s (Ullstein Bild Archive).

Olimpiu Di Luppi

2021-08-28 15:09:20

In "Funeral in Berlin" (1966), Michael Caine, as British secret agent Harry Palmer, was asked by Oscar Homolka, playing the role of the Soviet intelligence Colonel Stok, if he plays chess.

Olimpiu Di Luppi

2021-08-28 13:54:34

Mike Romanoff, one of Humphrey Bogart's chess-playing friends, was quite a character. In the October 29, 1945 issue of @LIFE, he was described as "the most wonderful liar of the 20th-century U.S." bit.ly/33xSXpG

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-08-27 16:30:05

David Niven in The prisoner of Zenda, 1937

Deutscher Schachbund

2021-08-27 10:43:44

Dank der Immobiliengruppe Krulich kann der DSB das neue Förderprogramm "Powergirls" auflegen. 6 talentierte Nachwuchsspielerinnen können in den nächsten 12 Monaten vermehrt an Turnieren teilnehmen und bekommen einen individuellen Trainer gestellt.
schachbund.de/team-news/ein-…

Angela O'Brien

2021-08-26 13:00:01

A 4,000 year old baby rattle found a the Kültepe Kaniş-Karum trade colony, central Anatolian province of Kayseri, Turkey. The rattle is dated to about 2000 BCE, was fired in a kiln and contains pebbles to create the rattle sound.👶[Credit: DHA] archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2014/08/4000-y…

Shejo Coellar Mideros♔♚

2021-08-25 17:27:47

📢Cuando los árabes conquistaron Persia, a mediados del s.VII, la popularidad del #Ajedrez creció. En 711 los musulmanes se habían apoderado de Toledo y las poblaciones judías y cristianas ya conocieron el #Ajedrez. Hacia el 842 se publica el primer tratado de ajedrez árabe.

Shejo Coellar Mideros♔♚

2021-08-25 17:27:45

📢📚La forma de #Ajedrez que jugamos hoy tiene poco más de 500 años. Por todos es reconocida la "invención española" alrededor de 1475, de la Reina y el Alfil con los actuales movimientos, a patir de otros trebejos llamados Alferza y Pil, con los que nace el ajedrez moderno.

Shejo Coellar Mideros♔♚

2021-08-25 17:27:44

🧵⬇️Trebejos e implementos #AJEDREZ🌎🌏🌍
♔♚Colección de papá: SHATRANJ 🔎👇🏻fotografiadelacoleccion.blogspot.com/2020/08/shatra…