On [:] A foolish expedient | George Bernard Shaw, 1880
George Bernard Shaw and his wife playing chess, 1907 by Alfred Stieglitz“Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle...
Chess
Juliet Browner & Man Ray, 1945
Juliet Browner in front of a chess game designed by Man Ray, 1945 Man Ray was forced to return from Paris to...
Persons [ ] Chess is life & Pawn Sacrifice | Bobby Fischer
Bobby Fischer "Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm...
Το σκάκι | Σπυρίδων Βικάτος
Σπυρίδων Βικάτος, Το σκάκι (1903;)Ο Σπυρίδων Βικάτος (1878 – 1960) ήταν `Ελληνας ζωγράφος, από τους τελευταίους εκπροσώπους της «Σχολής του Μονάχου»
Το Πιόνι | Κωνσταντίνος Π. Καβάφης (1894)
Πολλάκις, βλέποντας να παίζουν σκάκι, ακολουθεί το μάτι μου ένα Πιόνι όπου σιγά-σιγά τον δρόμο βρίσκει και στην υστερινή γραμμή...
Playing chess | Bertolt Brecht & Walter Benjamin, 1934
Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin playing chess, Denmark, Skovsbostrand, 1934 Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht play chess in Denmark, 1934
Instant Views [o.] Chess tournament (1920s – 1960s) | Photos by Rene Burri / Pierre Jamet / Erwin Volkov / Boris Ignatovich
Boris Ignatovich, Chess tournament, 1935 Erwin Volkov, Ukraine, 1957 Pierre Jamet, Chess players, 1936 Teenage boys playing chess, Germany, mid...
Posters | Raymond Savignac (1907-2002)
Raymond Savignac (1907-2002) Raymond Savignac, Robert Bresson’s Lancelot du Lac (1974) / The Devil, Probably (1977) . Raymond Savignac, often just abbreviated...
Life sized Chess | Marcel Duchamp / Philippe Halsman, 1956
Philippe Halsman, Marcel Duchamp directs a life-size chess game, 1956"Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the waythe artist is...
Playing chess | Leo Tolstoy , 1907 -08
Leo Tolstoy playing chess with the son of his friend and publisher Vladimir Chertkov, 1907Leo Tolstoy playing chess, 1908“A good player who loses...