Chess aesthetics

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I put a spell on you

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and now you're mine

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Roger Mayne, Chess Competition, London, 1956

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Moodboard for @oskarthewonderer

Fight me

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Denise Bellon: Marcel Duchamp chez lui, rue Larrey (París, 5ème), 1938, Colección Eric Le Roy, © Fonds Denise Bellon, / akg-images

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Nana Alexandria -  three-time Soviet women’s champion

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@mkvx

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He who never loses

Life is a game: Death Playing Chess from Täby Church in Sweden

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Vladimir and Vera Nabokov by Philippe Halsman - 1966

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Leo Tolstoy Playing Chess 

with the son of his friend and publisher Vladimir Chertkov who took this picture in 1907

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8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements (Hans Richter & Jean Cocteau, 1957)

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Soviet postcard, 1955

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20.01.22, thursday

the Venn diagram of me listening to The Imitation Game/The Theory of Everything/Queen’s Gambit/Interstellar soundtrack and me getting anything done is a circle

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The Game of Chess (Detail), c.1508.  by Lucas van Leyden

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new concept: 2d chess

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