I am a huge chess fan tho not much of a heavy hitter :) But it's really more than just a board with pieces on for me: each game is a story - sometimes the plot is rather dull, sometimes it has Hitchcock suspense and Bradbury cliffhangers. Sometim...
This cutie will be waiting for me when I get off the plane.
Scientific American, Volume 1001, Issue 1 (July 2, 1859), p.9: To me it sounds like some Soviet Anti-Alcohol Campaigns. Actually, I may assume the article was planted by a chess-loser, a young gentleman of their acquaintance, who didn't find an...
In pursuit of the previous post. My friends know about my passion and keep sending me stuff on the subject. Ironically, the following image was sent by a girl who invites me to visit India. Despite its atrocious subtext we cannot but admit its pow...
Marostica, Nr Italy. The town boasts two castles: the Castello Inferiore (Lower Castle) a virtually unique setting for Town Council meetings and the Castello Superiore (Upper Castle) up the hill. But on the second weekend of September in even ye...
I have the whole collection of my favorite chess pics but these two are really at the top. Because they mean chess can never be barred from you. Plus, how can one not love Ray playing whatever? No-Bars Bonus. I know it is a chestnut but I l...
From the baths we go to Nepenthe which is a beautiful cliff top restaurant with vast outdoor patio, with excellent food, excellent waiters and management, good drinks, chess tables, chairs and tables to just sit in the sun and look at the grand c...
I In their solemn corner, the players move The slow pieces. The board detains them Until the dawn in its severe world In which two colors hate each other. Within the forms irradiates magic Strictness: Homeric rook, swift Kni...
Some time ago I posted that illustration of William Jones' book about goddess and patron of chess, namely Caissa, which I supplied with rather impertinent remarks concerning S's replaced with F's in the text of the poem. But I couldn't sleep, I ...
After the Pixar cartoon Geri's Game this gonna be my next fav vid on chess which never fails to have me in stitches. Nobody showed more contempt to bishops using them as a pick. Might be not that bad occupation at the end of the day though, huh. ...
Yes, I am always hungry for chess. Sometimes I even think O.W. from Interstate 60 turned my stomach into a black hole. So, one day I told myself, "Ok, hun, if you don't want to look like that exponential lady who ate all rice the king of Paal Pays...
Well, some Thracian dryads seem to have more puzzles than those made of common clay can presuppose. Sir William Jones' orthography is now haunting me. In this version - http://www.chessdryad.com/caissa/caissa.htm - everything appears to be spel...
