Yoko Ono:

http://www.chess.com/photos/view_album/cheguevara/yoko-onos-gallery

note that both sides are indistinguishable. Or, there is only one 'side'. Ms Ono - chess - no 'vs' .

I think we must invite cheguevara,who posted this.

This is Yoko Ono's 1966 "White Chess" sculpture.  It also became known as "Play It By Trust" in a tribute version created for the 75th birthday of composer John Cage. Since all the pieces are White, as the game progresses and the pieces intermingle it becomes difficult, then impossible to distinguish "me" and "you" or "us" and "them."  Remember this piece was created during the height of the Cold War and during the Vietnam War. As the concept of "us" and "them" disappears, Chess, generally thought of as a Game of War, morphs into a Game of Peace.
 

Yoko Ono has been mildly involved in chess all along.

In this March 8, 1996 Newsday article, Ono is credited for a small donation to a Brooklyn school chess team:
 

"Yoko Ono Gives $2,500 to Strapped City Chess Team."

The widow of slain Beatles star John Lennon wrote out a personal check for $2,500 to the top-rated Edward R. Murrow High School team so it can participate in the state and national championship tournaments.
   . . . The team members, national champs from 1992 to 1994, had given up hope of attending either tournament for lack of funds. Ono, an inveterate chess player, turned the team's blues into rock 'n' roll after reading about its financial woes in the newspaper.
   Yoko felt it funny, or ironical, that a school wouldn't have money for something as educational as chess," explained Sam Havattoy, the multimedia artist's assistant. "It's ridiculous. That's the whole point. That's what moved her to respond."
   Ono . . . finds time to play chess virtually every day in her Dakota digs. It relaxes her mind, Havattoy said.

great and highly informative+contextualising post by batgirl [as usual] !

I loved this post for two reasons: I learned something (which I seem to be doing more of lately thanks to everyone here) and we added a new member who has a lot of interesting things to view and hopefully to contribute.

Thanks Norma Jean and Batgirl!

P.S. I am pretty glad the whole white chessboard thing did not catch on - I already have trouble as it is. :)

Alright maybe Ms Ono should have chosen a neutral colour - all-green say or all-blue

but all colours are co-opted!

all-white : white supremacy

all-black: the other side of above coin

all-green: pan-islamist [Ossaman Caliphate?]

all-blue: french global-imperialism

:(

so, we just ignore those connotations - we know that in Ono's work we are discussing white=peace.

do you know, I think the problem part is that which is common to all of tha above: the prefix 'all-'.    :)