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My Best
Chess! |
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Chess in Art
(A light-hearted look at paintings which
have featured chess)
| 'I know you're concentrating
Duckie, but can you believe the state of my
nails?' |
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In Sienna, in 1475, chess was becoming almost as
important as the search for a good
hairdresser. |
| Uurghh! Quickly, someone open a
window! |
'Les Echecs Amoureux' -
Miniature from an early 16th. Century manuscript.
While our hero has slipped away to refer to his book on the
openings,
Monsieur d'Aftat is making his own
suggestions. |
| Next time you invite me over for
a game, Abdul, make sure you've paid your electricity
bill! |
| You know, we're just going to
have to come up with a faster way to record our games than these
stupid hieroglyphics. |
Here's yet another example of an artist painting a chess board from
memory.
I make it 96 squares on this one!
I'm no art critic but the characters in the picture look even
stranger than the members of my club.
At the top right of the picture there's a couple who are finding
the wallpaper more interesting than the game.
The lady on the right seems to be bored out of her brains by her
over-anxious advisor.
There's a restraining hand on his right shoulder, belonging to the
guy wearing the hair net.
We can't see the bloke out of the picture to the left but he
clearly has a hand in things and the lady's opponent
(he of the fancy red sleeve) seems to be having difficulty
understanding the advice he's receiving over the mobile phone
that's hidden in his wig.
Well alright - so I don't know anything about art. It's over to
you...
Who painted this?
Is it perhaps part of a larger picture?
I know there's at least one of my subscribers who knows more about
art than he does about chess.
(So let's hear from you, Roger.) |
| 'A plague on it sir, but I fancy
you have the better of me.' |
| Maybe this is saying, 'Don't go
to war - play chess.' |
Loads more to
come.
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