theChessMemer

2021-08-25 06:29:13

'Ajeeb' was a chess-playing "automaton", created by Charles Hooper (a cabinet maker), first presented at the Royal Polytechnical Institute in 1868.

Hnefatafl Board Game

2021-08-25 00:38:32

Historic Hnefatafl Pieces, Part 2 dlvr.it/S6GBR8

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-08-25 02:16:21

The Rolling Stones
Chess Sessions

Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-08-25 11:38:39

The illustration of the game Maroczy vs Euwe (Scheveningen 1923) from Savielly Tartakower's book "Die hypermoderne Schachpartie" was inspired by the style of the Russian avant-garde. #Chess

Xerses phus

2021-08-25 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 14/n
Gerhard Marcks
Chess players
Bronze sculpture
1944
Screenshot: "Deutschlandspiegel" 100/1963, 05.02.1963, Federal film archive (Bundesfilmarchiv), Berlin, Germany
bit.ly/3ybGPrY
#chess #VisualArts #sculpture #MarcksGerhard #Marcks1944 #ChessPlayer

Xerses phus

2021-08-24 04:00:01

#LegendsPlayingChess 3/n
Stanley Kubrick
#chess #ChessPlayer #KubrickStanley #StanleyKubrick #FilmDirector
Watch the fantastic video essay "What Chess Taught #Kubrick About Filmmaking": youtu.be/ohFIPUV4NCQ

John McCafferty

2021-08-23 17:28:16

Figures before a Village Inn, Cornelis Saftleven, 1642
(Rijksmuseum)

The card-playing friar is a nice touch.

Bernie's Tweets

2021-08-23 08:42:50

John Renie died at 33 in 1832 and is buried In a graveyard in Wales.

His gravestone is a 285 letter acrostic puzzle. The sentence “here lies John Renie can be read 46,000 different ways.

Now you know.
#mondaythoughts

Intronuture

2021-08-21 18:01:20

British mathematician Bertrand Russell, playing a weighty game of chess with his son.

Xerses phus

2021-08-23 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 13/n
Codex Manesse
Written and illustrated between 1304 and 1340
Produced in Zürich, Switzerland
Folio 13r, Markgraf Otto von Brandenburg
Heidelberg University Library, Germany
#chess #VisualArts #IlluminatedManuscript #CodesManesse #MiddleAges

Jin Xu 徐津

2021-08-20 19:06:57

Chinese or Manchu ladies dressed in European fashion playing a board game, a rare work by painters in the Qianlong emperor's court (18th c) during the Qing dynasty. Now in the Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg, it's said to have originally decorated the old Summer Palace near Beijing.

John McCafferty

2021-08-21 11:38:16

Icy play

(British Museu)

John McCafferty

2021-08-21 11:38:36

Icy play

(British Museum)

Caithness Broch Project

2021-08-16 12:41:15

Which @NtlMuseumsScot* Monday Mood are you today?

#Scotland #Archaeology #MuseumsMonday

National Museums Scotland

2021-08-20 15:56:40

Ok, so despite our previously pinned post we can't *actually* put a giant Lewis chess piece on the National Museum of Scotland...🙁

But we CAN share the whole set with you in 3D for #SketchfabFriday! 😁 skfb.ly/6QTPC

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-08-20 05:07:17

Monkey Bussiness, 1931
Marx brothers

Harpo

Xerses phus

2021-08-20 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 12/n
Sofonisba Anguissola
The game of chess (or: Portrait of the artist's sisters playing #chess)
Oil on canvas
1555
National Museum, Poznań, Poland
#VisualArts #painting #AnguissolaSofonisba #Anguissola1555

ludii.games

2021-08-19 11:05:33

Version 1.2.6 is available. 938 games are now in Ludii's library (ludii.games). @ieee_cog attendees, enjoy the third day of the conference in trying Ludii during the talks? 😀 #ArtificialIntelligence #gamedesign #COG

GitHub

2021-08-19 16:36:06

We've added enhanced citation support so academics and researchers can easily receive acknowledgments for their contributions to software with citation links in the common APA or BibTeX styles.

github.blog/2021-08-19-enh…

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-08-19 14:51:21

Perhaps the first chess photograph by Nicolaas Henneman. Glicée daguerrotype. 1841.

Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-08-19 12:36:20

Yesterday I found the only surviving two lottery tickets from Count Palffy's raffle of the Theater an der Wien in 1819. The main prize included the theater, Palffy's Palais in Hernals and a jewelry collection.

Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-08-18 17:24:44

A signature of Hans Kmoch when he was still "Johann Josef". #chess #chesshistory

Nina Who?🦉

2021-08-17 22:21:32

Zwei Runden Schach gegen den Freund gespielt, einmal Remis, einmal Matt.
Current mood:

John McCafferty

2021-08-18 11:41:09

Francken, Hieronymus II. 1578-1623

Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins

(The Hermitage Museum)

Playing Card Makers

2021-08-17 07:10:46

Fab eh? Soon to be back in the display case in The Chamberlain’s court at Guildhall.

John McCafferty

2021-08-18 09:59:25

'La main chaude' is a game in which one person hides their face another's lap & guesses who slapped their hand.

Hieronymus Janssens, 1674; 1660/70 (Museum of London/Louvre )
Gerrit Lundens, 1643/48 (Essex Co. Council)
Follower of Janssens, 1665/6 (National Gallery London)

LEO-BW

2021-08-18 08:35:11

Lust auf ein kleines Spiel? Heute schauen wir uns im Blog ein historisches #Kartenspiel aus der Zeit um 1430 an, das zu den wertvollsten Objekten des @LMWStuttgart gehört 🙂

Zum Beitrag ➡️ leo-bw.de/web/guest/blog…

[Bild: Landesmuseum Württemberg]

Chess Forum

2021-08-17 10:44:33

Muhammad Ali getting ready for a game of chess.
Ali was a reasonable amateur player in his day and thought it helped his boxing by making him think tactically.
In his latter years, he played a game of chess against Mike Tyson and beat him.

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-08-17 17:14:35

Some pages of "The CHESS PLAYER," published in Boston by Nathaniel Dearborn. 1841.

It contains:

B. Franklin's Essay on the Morals of Chess;
G. Walker, Introduction to the Rudiments of Chess
3 simul games played by Philidor;
60 Openings, Mates and Situations, by W.S. Kenney

History Scotland

2021-08-16 09:24:03

J.M. Barrie's celebrity cricket team

In the latest History Scotland, Pitamber Kaushik takes a look at a celebrity team assembled by author J.M. Barrie in the years before World War I #history

Get your copy today - historyscotland.com/store/back-iss…

(image copyright Wellcome Collection)

Howard Staunton

2021-08-16 10:00:55

Could skill in war, politics, law or divinity be tested, as surely as expertness in chess, how much pompous ignorance would find its proper level.

John McCafferty

2021-08-16 06:36:26

James (II) Duke of #York, print made c.1640-1650.

A little different than the usual depictions of him.

(British Museum)

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-08-16 05:17:00

1984
John Hurt

Xerses phus

2021-08-16 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 10/n
Unknown artist
Apes playing chess
1st half of the 14th century (?)
Naumburg Cathedral, Germany; north side of the east choir
#chess #VisualArts #sculpture #ArchitecturalSculpture #NaumburgCathedral #MiddleAges

Howard Staunton

2021-08-15 13:01:04

Chess reckons among its votaries men of the senate, the bar, and the pulpit.

John McCafferty

2021-08-14 14:04:40

Four sets of cardplayers

(All from the Royal Collection Trust, HM EII)

Jan Steen, 1664.
David Teniers, 1643.
The Brothers Le Nain, c. 1630-1640.
Pieter de Hooch, 1658.

The MET: Egyptian Art (Bot)

2021-08-14 10:21:18

Game piece, ca. 2124–1504 B.C. metmuseum.org/art/collection… #themet #egyptianart