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"Chess Review," April 1939

WOW! Really beautiful!

Wonderful Did they find the place it is today ty?

No idea. This was from over 75 years ago.

On this chessboard US Grant prepared some tactics he used later in real life. First war games simul !

Hmmm. I think I would prefer a NOJ Dubrovnik.

Umm. One's a chess board and the other's a set of chess men.

one can easily imagine a game between Grant and Lee on a board like this. from there it could be an easy leap to creating a work of art or literature - a story or film depicting a game representing Gettysburg... but what would that game look like? Now there is a real creative challenge... making a game that somehow represents a real battle - not necessarily Gettysburg - but any of the "great" battles in any war. any suggestions batgirl?

Well, Lee didn't face Grant at Gettysburg, so I would think the Battle of the Wilderness, Cold Harbor or even the Seige of Petersburg might be most appropos for a Grant vs. Lee scenario.

True, BG, but I can't consider Cold Harbor to be a battle, more like target practise for the ANV.  Spotsylvania or North Anna was more like a fight.

For a chess display of a battle, the KID could be used for something like 1st Bull Run--each side attacked with their left.

1st Manassas -with one side high-tailing it back home unceremoniously. Maybe an example of losing a won game.

Oh. That's right. I just wanted to sound sophisticated. I failed. Then I want an HOS board.

I wonder how much money that antique is worth. I personally do not find it attractive, but I could say that about a lot of very valuable art that collectors arduously seek.

If an American Civil War battle were to be analogous to, or even converted into a chess game, I would use Grant's fight against AS Johnston at Shiloh.  Gettysburg would be good too, although the blunders may make it less instructive.

To be fair, you're looking at a lousy scan of probably a lousy photograph. I imagine the real think could be quite exquisite.

by mistake I signed up for chess.com twice. How can I get rid of one of my loggin names? Ive never used it or played a game as my second loggin..ANYONE?

thank you

I suppose it would be possible to construct a game of chess to mimic Gettysburg, but the three days make it tough--an individual game for each day, maybe?  The problem is the same for any multiple-day battle; there is so much to cover to do it properly.  1st Bull Run (what's this Manassas thing? ) was fought just like a KID--McDowell (white) attacked first with his left (the queen side) and Beauregard (black) attacked with his left (the king side).  White was well on his way to winning when black pulled a tactical shot out of the blue which turned the tide (the trains bringing reinforcements)--SOP for KID players.  I really think it would be easy to construct a game of chess to portray this on the board.  Antietam would be another tough one, even though it was a one-day battle.  Chickamauga might be possible, but the battles of Fredricksburg or Malvern Hill (like Cold Harbor or Sayler's Creek) were just one-sided affairs--you could probably use a simul or blindfold game to do these well.

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I guess the photographer was using an outdated version of iOS when he snapped the photo with his iPhone.

It's just turned sideways in the photo.

Beside the stars, may be symbolism for "general", does the other eight symbols mean something ? ty, nice w-e .