Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-09-18 19:25:13

The empty space between the two stones in the foreground marks the grave of chess master Dr Maximilian Fleissig (1844-1919), elder brother of Bernhard Fleissig. #Chess #Vienna

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-09-18 18:39:16

There it goes again, it's so so good!

The very famous picture of Karpov playing an exhibition game at the XVIII Komsomol Congress, in 1978.

Utopian/Dystopian Chess!

Photo: Vladimir Rodionov

Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-09-17 20:25:39

The grave of chess master Bernhard Fleissig #Chess

Xerses phus

2021-09-17 04:00:01

#ChessInVisualArts 24/n
Entr' Acte
Director: René Clair
Starring: Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, ...
1924
France
#chess #VisualArts #film #SilentFilm #DuchampMarcel #MarcelDuchamp #ManRay #RenéClair #ChessPlayer #EntrActe1924
Film online: bit.ly/38HzVzG
Chess scene: 4:18 ff.

RomanCircus

2021-09-16 12:40:18

ROMAN HERITAGE OPEN DAY
Saturday 18 September 2021, 10am-4pm
FREE entry to Visitor Centre, FREE guided tours of the chariot racing track archaeological remains.
Meet the Romans – learn about life in Britannia in the year 200 CE.
Learn to play Aquila, an ancient Roman board game.

@dehypotheses@fedihum.org

2021-09-17 07:37:21

Bei #BLM Protesten wurde seine Büste gestürzt - nun fragte eine Podiumsdiskussion: Wohin mit Blumenbachs Erbe?

Malin Wilckens über den "Vater der #Anthropologie", dessen Klassifizierungen der Menschen die Grundlage für rassistische Einteilungen bildete:

vergleichen.hypotheses.org/692

Nina Willburger

2021-09-17 07:30:53

This rag-doll looks kind of creepy these days, but it was certainly loved by a child in the past. The doll from the #Roman period in #Egypt is made of linen and stuffed with rags and papyrus. A blue glass bead attached to the head's left side suggests a hair ornament. 1/3

Alison Fisk

2021-09-16 12:04:08

Evidence of Roman gaming at Richborough Fort. Bone, glass & samian ware counters, 2 pieces of a single game board cut from reused marble from the Richborough triumphal arch & fragments of bone inlay from a dice tower used to reduce cheating c.AD300
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology

CARAA

2021-09-16 15:45:07

Queen Nefertari Playing Senet, ca. 1279–1213 B.C., Original New Kingdom, Ramesside, This facsimile copies of one of the paintings from Nefertari's tomb, Met museum.

Deutscher Schachbund

2021-09-16 11:30:19

Ab Sonntag werden 8 unserer Kaderspieler:innen in Berlin auf Titeljagd gehen. Bei den beiden Rising-Stars-Normenturnieren werden die aufstrebenden Talente dazu jeweils auf eine Auswahl internationaler Titelträger treffen.
schachbund.de/news/rising-st…

Xerses phus

2021-09-16 04:00:01

#LegendsPlayingChess 5/n
Humphrey Bogart
#chess #ChessPlayer #HumphreyBogart #BogartHumphrey #Bogie #actor #legend

Xerses phus

2021-09-15 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 23/n
Mickey Mouse
German edition: 12/1981
Micky Maus
Lern-Schach
#chess #VisualArts #design #comics #MickeyMouse

John McCafferty

2021-09-13 16:49:35

Catherine of Aragon, boxwood games piece after Hans Kels, Germany c. 1530-1540

(Victoria & Albert Museum , London)

Xerses phus

2021-09-13 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 22/n
Miniature of Ulysses playing chess in his tent during the Trojan War
in: L'Épître Othéa by Christine de Pisan
France, Central
c. 1410-1414
British Library, London; Harley 4431, f.133
#chess #LegendOfOrigin #Ulysses #VisualArts #IlluminatedManuscript

Hnefatafl Board Game

2021-09-13 00:20:33

Historic Hnefatafl Pieces, Part 4 dlvr.it/S7Rc6f

Thomas Småberg 🏰🐉🌊

2021-09-12 09:57:23

A gaming piece with a #Runic inscription found in a well in Lund, Sweden. Dating to before the 13th century, it tells the tale of love lost. "Rolf, son of Thorger carved this. The snow-white woman caused him heartache" (from Kulturens yearbook 2021)

Iain Cameron

2021-09-11 20:18:05

A real treat today to see some of the Isle of Lewis chess pieces in Stornoway. Some 800 years old, they’re carved from walrus ivory and whale teeth and were found near Uig, buried in the sand. They were thought to be carved in Norway.

AIC: Modern Art (Bot)

2021-09-09 23:44:13

Marcel Duchamp, Pocket Chess Set, 1944 artic.edu/artworks/21044… #artinstituteofchicago #marcelduchamp

World Chess Hall of Fame

2021-09-10 22:00:16

Did you know we have a chess set featuring furry friends from the land down under? Visit "Pawns and Passports: Chess Sets from Around the Globe" to see this adorable set from Australia featuring the Sydney Opera House as the rook. worldchesshof.org/exhibit/pawns-…
#PawnsandPassports

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…