chess and beauty
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This is about chess, photography and art of chess and women in chessTRANSCRIPT
From: Breaking PointAuthor: James E. Gunn
Chess and Beauty
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Women in Chess circles have been always described as weak players, no man really wants to play against them.
They are pushed, in all cultures, to play against each other in the corners of tournament halls
Chess match between WGM Irina Krush, US Women Chess Champion and Barbary Macaque in Gibraltar , Photo Courtesy of Dean Ippolito
Some say that women in chess are slightly more clever than monkeys.
Illustration from Die Schachspieler und ihre Welt by Arpad Bauer (Berlin, 1911)
However, their beauty are highly admired in Arts……………
�ٍ Grandmaster Susan Polgar
……and Photography!
Photography have transformed a strong Grandmaster like Alexandra Kosteniuk (right) from .……
……a just another strong player, to…
……the most beautiful chess player
She is the ultimate Queen of Chess
……and she is everywhere.
But the real beauty of chess are the pieces
The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem. …I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists Marcel Duchamp
Steingrimur Eyfjord - at the Palazzo Bianchi Michiel
Glenn Kaino’s “burning Board”
Even photographs, as great as this, can not compete with the aesthetic quality of chess pieces .
Pieces are the centre of every chess photograph. Chess positions make the drama and create the
emotions .
Even in classical painting
Pieces can be used in surrealistic
artworks …
Or nonsense painting
Chess board can result in abstract drawing
Or symbolic ones
Or psychotic ones
Original sculpture by Alan Boileau on the web at
douglasgallery Or a masterpiece of modern art
Chess pieces are used as art everywhere
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Chess pieces and board sometimes used to create good illusion
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Chess, the ancient board game, when combined with computer resulted in unimaginable beauty
ktaeryna lahno chess set
Nevertheless, the best combination is chess pieces and women
As Alexandra always reminds us
However, when man confronted both ….a beautiful woman and chess pieces
His only concern is the current position in front of him…that is chess position. the pieces are the ultimate
beauty…well, I'm not sure. I’m confused a bit