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…

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.