The chess player is the 'has-been' of the world

Rare are those individuals who either during or after a game are accompanied by beautiful women or walk straight into a limousine after they play a game or two.

Oh they come from different walks of life: Columbia University Math professors, Wall Street brokers, playwrights, child prodigies, family men, homeless, demented, criminals, etc, etc..

...but make no mistake that many and perhaps most are socio-paths and people who can not function as normal human beings in society. And so they engage in the only past time that gives them respite and a brief chance to be themselves, chess.

Nobody cares about the game as much as they do and that's because it's non-inclusive. Meaning, it's not a board game where more than two can play. And who would want to play with them anyhow? The chess player would just as quickly 'flip you a finger' in a loss and most people find that kind of behavior to be rude.

So we play chess. The game of the Devil. And he created it to keep us in some dimension of hell where the inhabitants never achieve contemptment but rather play another game and another and another and another, forever, and another and another and another and another and another...

you win the "Wierdest (most shocking) picture of the Day" award.

congrats!....  I have no comment on the rant.  I like chess.  I AM evil, I guess? idk.

Hungry Hungry Hippos is much more inclusive. We should all switch to that.

He might be right.  After all, in January, he grand mufti of Saudi Arabia banned chess.

Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Sheikh, the most senior ranked interpreter of religious law in Saudi Arabia, made the pronouncement on television, when he was fielding questions from viewers on daily religious matters.

being grand mufti he would know.

but seriously I've heard that the pic this is a famous painting, BUT would this grand mufti approve??- its very - explicit.

if thus dude was a dudette, it wouldn't even be left on the thread...?

not that I'm a prude or anything.  very detailed art for sure.  good muscle tone.

I think the weird/shocking picture below is more worthy of the award.  The zombie character represents people who DO NOT play chess.

and... there's now Serious competition for the award.

thats messed up turbo!  I don't think the mufti likes this kind of art...  perhaps just posting this stuff here is Evil, too!

I hope I don't get in trouble for that image.  If so, it will probably be about the cartoon-nudity, not the decapitated zombie head (since our strangely-conflicted western puritanical culture treats sexuality as taboo, but not implied violence).  This is definitely the most risque thing I have ever posted.  If the powers-that-be object to it, I will take it down and publicly apologize.

Turbo your picture kind of reminds me of my last summers vacation...

Another weird one for the competition?

haha it seems this poor sod has had his very thoughtful and eloquent forum hijacked and turned into a who can post the weirdest picture forum. What was his original point anyway? We are all has beens? i don't get it.

Yowza!, this thread has quickly gone off the deep end.  Trysts, who is the artist?  I must know.  Definitely some H. Bosch influence there.  The only thing scarier that I know of is H. R. Giger.

His name is Karl Perrson. I don't know anything about him. I don't even know what those things are?

He was definitely influenced by Giger, as seen in the following work by Perrson:

Try Alfred Kubin

wells, its horse meat!

this is a GREAT thread.  I like it!

for courtesy sake please help. if you don't have a submission- whats you choice?- I'm kind of moved by #8.  

its NOT fine art, but perhaps I can keep it going.... (oc where this is going is "offtopic' but we can have fun on the way)

<------- Happy "has-been"

I  kind of like this one, being a Chef and all 

me after I notice a blunder