“The Chess Game” by Charles Bargue (1825-1883)
I really cannot get enough of these. Again, my thanks to Tableaux ayant pour sujet les échecs which cries out for your visit.
“Les Joueurs d’echecs” (1876) by Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
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Chess with a Parrot, Dog and Cat
Posted in Art, Chess on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Your Move
Posted in Art, Chess on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“A Game of Chess” by Henry Siddons Mowbray (1858-1928)
While chasing down the artist for a postcard I saw on eBay, I found the most extraordinary web gallery of paintings with chess as the subject. Just one beauty after another. Hasten to Tableaux ayant pour sujet les échecs for an overwhelming experience.
“Ma femme et ses soeurs” [...]
An Unfair Advantage
Posted in Art, Chess on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“An Unfair Advantage” by Elizabeth Howell Ingham from Century magazine, 1908
Most of the Time
Posted in Chess, Literature on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Most of the time, chess was the only language between them. One afternoon when they had spent three or four hours on endgame analysis she said wearily, ‘Don’t you get bored sometimes?’ and he looked at her blankly, ‘What else is there?’ he said.”
– from The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis, one of the best [...]
Your Move
Posted in Art, Chess on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is as good as it gets. An edible chessboard and chess set created by an English designer named Biggles. Do visit his website for the full story.
An Invention of the Devil
Posted in Chess, Religion on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“I went straight from Houston to New York over the Iron Mountain Railroad. I anticipated a rather solitary trip; but, fortunately, I met General Baird, whom I knew, and some other Army officers, who had been down on the Mexican border to settle some troubles in the ‘free zone.’ We amused ourselves on the long [...]
To Love a Queen
Posted in Art, Chess on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My grand-nephew Jacob’s interest in chess has rekindled my own, and a day in London gave me the opportunity to visit the British Museum and see the Lewis Chess pieces. Much has been written about them, so I won’t repeat it all here, but they are the oldest complete set of chess pieces yet found, [...]
