Art by Justin Michael Jenkins:

Chess Pieces, a book of chess poems by David Solway.

http://mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=262

Here's something by me:

Very nice mwilkin9 !!!

Post #543 nice, might have been nicer if the front of the board was wider and the back narrower also the front of the board should be thicker and the back narrower. In design this is called perspective.

Nevertheless, I like your submission for it's originality.

Perhaps if you had stuck to all of the rules of design I might not have noticed it!

Well done, I really like it.

Thanks guys. I thought about doing the perspective thing but it's only a 1ft by 1ft board so perspective was too minuscule to notice anyway so I didn't do it.

I was thinking of adding something for scale but I was afraid of ruining it.

Chu shogi poem and game - qixel

In the garden the jasmine withers.
I move my ginshō,
And the summer arrives without you.

That´s sad the summer arriving without you...

found this one on the internet:

chess prayer beads?

This is one great thread thank you:-)

sketchbook

great!,really nice

This thread is FANTASTIC !!!!!!!!!

Heres a poem i just typed up. I know its no walden but i think its pretty good.

Chess: A Gay Old Love Story

The white pawn jumps to c4 feeling the optimism that comes from a fresh new game. The cunning black knight counters with c6 the kings indian defense waits to obliterate whites english. white carries on with Knight to c3as the 2 dance away to the middle game. madness takes over the 64 square board. carnage all around and no queen can be found. anarchy rules as the cowardly kings keeps hidden away. The white bishops hold their diagonals, but the black knights charge on, claiming pawn after pawn. The ivory rooks can do nothing but watch. for the threat of a fork keeps them stopped.  A brave island of pawns stand up to the beast as they stab him in the throat and leave him to bleed. they charge on with hope to bring forth a new queen. the rooks break free to help the brave three. The end game is here and the end for black near. As the pawns look back they see their bishops being slain by black. Even if they wanted to they couldn’t go back. The middle pawn reaches the top rank and an impressed king courts the brave man. a queen is made and gay marriage saves the land. The black king concedes seeing no hope for victory.

Wow!
Very impressive art pictures everyone.Beautiful & thoughtful.

Check out this goldmine:

http://www.jmrw.com/Chess/Tableau_echecs/

very nice...!!