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Category Archives: chess art
Is Chess Art?
Popular film critic Roger Ebert has decided to write a long statement defending his pronouncement long ago that “Video games can never be art.” I really don’t care what he says about video games: it’s what he says about chess … Continue reading
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Chess Playing New Jersey Devil
A chessplaying New Jersey Devil from Paranominal’s Cryptozoology. Why is it that the devil is always up for a game?
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Paper Chess Set
Paper Chess by Kell Black would make the perfect holiday gift for a crafty chess-playing friend or teen. There have been a couple interviews (see “APSU Artist Releases Book of Paper Chess Pieces” and “APSU Professor Engineers Paper Chess Set … Continue reading
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Chess Skill That’s Stronger than Steel
According to Gareth Williams’s book Master Pieces: The Architecture of Chess, in the 18th Century “the turning of a chess set was an important part of an apprentice turner’s course” — so important that “a seal of the Hanover Turners’ … Continue reading
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Paul Morphy vs. Mephistopheles
Retzsch’s Die Schachspieler (1831) In Die Schachspieler and the Morphy Anecdote, Part I and Part II, Sarah Beth Cohen reproduces multiple interpretations of a fascinating painting by Friedrich Moritz August Retzsch depicting the familiar theme of a chess game with … Continue reading
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King Kong Chess Set
You can get an impressive King Kong Deluxe Chess Set for $129.99 from Toynk. Based on the classic 1933 film, it contrasts an art deco city with a savage island (ruled by Kong as its King.) Daryl has great pictures … Continue reading
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Chess in the Dark with LED Chess Sets
I came across this LED Chess Set from Cool Stuff Express for $89.99 and another from Hi-Tec Art for $39.99. I should have recognized that such products were inevitable when I read about how to make your own LED chess … Continue reading
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Hitler vs. Lenin?
In “Based on Life or Fantasy, a Picture Goes to Auction” (The New York Times, September 30, 2009), Dylan Loeb McClain presents a balanced report on an etching meant to depict a chess match between Hitler and Lenin. Let readers … Continue reading
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Chessmen from Nuts and Bolts
The Make Magazine weblog points us to Julia Suits’s pictures of a set of chessmen she and her kids created from hardware store nuts and bolts (and black spray paint). Fun.
LEGO Star Wars Chess
Those three terms (“LEGO,” “Star Wars,” and “Chess“), strung together, form a powerful phrase for many a young boy. In fact, my six-year-old son started putting those three terms together about a year ago, and over the summer he worked … Continue reading
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