Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-03-02 12:55:44

19th century daguerrotype showing a game of chess, by Honore Guiroard.

An interesting composition!

Museo Universidad de Navarra

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-03-02 08:44:57

Early representation of chess (shatranj) playing, dated 1143. In the Arab wooden beehive-like ceiling (muqarnas) of the amazing Cappella Palatina di Palermo.

Digital Maps of the Ancient World

2021-03-01 20:51:29

The Lewis Chessmen.

Found on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, dating to 1150–1175, the chess pieces consist of elaborately worked walrus ivory and whales' teeth. It's believed that they belonged to a merchant travelling from Norway to Ireland.

British Museum.

#MedievalMonday

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-03-01 17:51:46

In La Alhambra, one of the magnificient Al-Andalus palaces of the Nazari kingdom in Granada, an astonishing ceiling with many motifs made in the 14th century. Chess is there, of course.

Michael Wiemer

2021-03-01 07:53:51

@SchachNotizen @plattsport @Sportfrauen1 @americanarena @Grit_Hartmann @73Kretzschmar Trifft es genau. Stellvertretend für guten #Chess Content hatte ich Dich aufgeführt. Auf Twitter gibt es gerade im #Schach mit @Bodenseeperlen , @Seitenschach, @dgriffinchess @olimpiuurcan, @DanielKingChess, @Ingram_Braun eine erfreuliche Anzahl an erfrischenden Texten und Fotos.

Olimpiu G. Urcan

2021-02-28 23:36:38

Herbert Marshall, Herman Steiner and Shirley Temple on the set of "Kathleen" (1941). More about chess and Hollywood here: bit.ly/3q3Y5u8

Olimpiu G. Urcan

2021-02-28 15:01:16

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Guido Kühn 🇪🇺

2021-02-28 18:39:35

Auf dem Berliner Seuchenvögeltreffen #b2802 erklärte eine Heil-Schamanin, Gaia hätte ihr gesagt, die einzige Alternative zu Masken, Abstand und Impfen sei die Herstellung einer besonderen Verbundenheit zur Erde. Ok, ich hätte nie geglaubt mal einer Heil-Schamanin recht zu geben.

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-02-28 17:17:52

This chess set dated late 18th-early 19th century, made of ivory and walnut wood, from Russia.

With Boats ладья (pronounced as "ladya") as Rooks.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-02-28 07:19:12

Alex Bernstein on a IBM 704 computer in 1957.

1st prototype of a selective forward pruning Shannon Type B program; it searched 4 plies minimax (no alpha-beta pruning) in around 8 minutes, evaluated material, mobility, area control and king defense.

IBM Watson Media

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-02-28 07:22:27

Here is the whole pavement

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-02-28 07:21:41

Tiled mosaic on the floor of San Savino, Piacenza. Late 1100s

That hand w/o the body, so incredibly modern!

Douglas Griffin

2021-02-27 15:25:01

Camp David, Maryland, September 1978. During a break from the ongoing Israel/Egypt peace talks, Znigbiew Brzezinski (President Carter's National Security Adviser) enjoys a game of #chess with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
(📷N. Milner, via gpophotoeng.gov.il.)

Tim McShane

2021-02-27 00:16:04

#EsplanadeArtefactImages Cherry Ames' Nursing Game, 1959. Based on a Young Adult book series featuring a mystery-solving nurse, the aim of the game was to be the first to complete nurse training school.

Clara Fall

2021-02-26 07:27:45

Tatsächlich seit hundert Jahren die selben Probleme.

Historisches Museum Frankfurt

2021-02-24 10:37:12

Bauernjungen beim Boulespiel von #JohannLudwigErnstMorgenstern,1799. Die Darstellung entspricht der insbesondere in der flämischen Genremalerei ausgeprägten Motivtradition im Freien spielender Bauern, wie sie im 17. Jahrhundert oft zu finden ist. #histmus

Foto © HMF

Deutsche Schachjugend

2021-02-26 12:00:02

Unser Gründungsturnier am 27.02.:
10 Titelträger:innen gegen 10 Qualifizierte!

Mit dabei WIM Fiona Sieber!

Letzte Qualifikation 26.02. lichess.org/swiss/XI1XtmBw
Alle Infos 👉deutsche-schachjugend.de/termine/2021/g…

Foto: @Schachbund
#schach #DSJ

Olimpiu G. Urcan

2021-02-26 05:52:52

Great work here by a Californian mom with recreating a game six moment from the Spassky versus Fischer 1972 match by using Lego pieces.

Diane Doniol-Valcroze

2021-02-24 20:24:24

A Miniature Chess Set in a Ring by artist Joe Turner.

Deutsche Schachjugend

2021-02-25 08:02:27

[Instagram Update] (instagr.am/p/CLtSuvOAH01/) Die Vereinsarbeit und die Arbeit der Kreise, Bezirke, Landesschachjugenden lebt von ehrenamtlichem Engagement. Daher stellen wir jeden Tag „die Helfer:innen des Tages“ vor.⁠
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Heute: ⁠Steffi Schneider!⁠
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Wie heißt du und wo…

HNF Paderborn

2021-02-23 10:25:16

Vor 65 Jahren spielte Arthur Samuel im Fernsehen Dame gegen einen IBM 704. Der Kurswert von IBM soll danach um 15 Prozent gestiegen sein. blog.hnf.de/als-ein-comput…

amwillemsen

2021-02-22 16:26:20

The pre-print is here! Proceedings 2019 #dorestad congress @RM_Oudheden. Final check & it goes to print. Looks good 🗡
Order from @sidestonepress!
15 papers incl @NLIJssennagger @stadshistorie @CCooijmans @rosebroadley
Shown: gaming pieces from section on #Vikings & luxury.

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-02-22 09:24:33

This chess set is from late 18th, early 19th century. Made in Spain out of bronze and wood.

A regence-like style, the weight of each piece must feel amazingly good in your hand. Not suited to throw it to your opponent!

The Metropolitan Musem of Art

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-02-22 07:49:07

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880 –1938)
"Erich Heckel und Otto Mueller beim Schach", 1913

An expressionist jewel! The muse and the thinkers, a bit historically demodé; but the colors, perspective and postures are classic.

Brücke-Museum, Berlin

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-02-21 20:56:09

Jorge Díaz Arduino (Buenos Aires, 1913-1979)
Serie "Las calaveras", “La partida”.

Howard Staunton

2021-02-21 16:55:05

Chess-men and board must necessarily be made part and parcel of every decent drawing-room in the land.

Roger Costa

2021-02-19 08:30:32

@velasc_alberto Em pensava que eren els escacs d'Àger, t'ho juro.

Kartalina

2021-02-20 10:01:19

♟️🧀@drasskin
visitmuseum.gencat.cat/es/museu-de-ll…

https://twitter.com/RogerCosta16/status/1362680958709862403

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-02-20 10:40:03

This chess set made of rock crystal are one of the earliest sets found in Europe. Originally in the Colegiata de San Pedro de Àger, it appeared in a 1068 inventary of belongings of Arnau Mir de Tost and his wife Arsenda.

Museo Diocesano de Lleida

Ashmolean Museum

2021-02-20 09:30:18

Alas, another lockdown weekend. What will you be doing to pass the time? ⁠
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This work, titled 'The Chess Players', is an oil-on-canvas painting by William Newenham Montague Orpen, before 1902.

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-02-19 20:21:40

This is a trully unique chess piece, made of walrus ivory in England, ca. mid 1200s.

The carving details are amazing; it must be a Rook, with king and soldiers guarding it.

Victoria and Albert Museum

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-02-18 07:29:44

This elephant--made of dolomite--may be a chess piece from the Sasanian empire, right at the time and place where chess was starting to spread to the World, ca. 6th–7th century A.D. Iran or Mesopotamia.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-02-17 07:19:28

This chess set is made of sandalwood; carved by a W. Aust. prospector for Lord Brassey (Governor of Victoria 1895-1900).

Knights are kangaroos!!

Niedersächsischer Schachverband

2021-02-16 23:30:22

Heute Abend fand ein NSV Online-Blitzturnier mit 24 Teilnehmenden statt. Nach 11 Runden hat sich am Ende Daniel Schulz (@96Schach) mit 8 Punkten aus 11 Partien Dank besserer Wertung vor @Ingram_Braun (ESV Rot-Weiß Göttingen) durchsetzen.

Link: nsv-online.de/2021/02/nsv-on…

NSV Online-Blitzturnier Februar 2021: Ergebnisse

NSV: NSV Online-Blitzturnier Februar 2021: Ergebnisse – NSV (Benjamin Löhnhardt)

Douglas Griffin

2021-02-16 21:01:28

A flyer for the Soviet film '#Chess Fever' (1925), which starred Capablanca and other players from the great international tournament that took place in the Soviet capital, Moscow, that year.

Hannover 96 Schach

2021-02-16 22:05:00

Glückwunsch an den 96er Daniel Schulz zum Sieg beim Blitzturnier von @NSVschach! Zusätzlich starker 5. Platz für den zweiten 96er @PascalGMTG.

Auch Glückwunsch an @Ingram_Braun für den 2. Platz sowie die weiteren Preisränge!

#Schach #H96 #NiemalsAllein ⚫️⚪️💚