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From: Breaking PointAuthor: James E. Gunn
Chess and Beauty
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www.gps.edu/news/Pictures/chess_IMG.jpg
Women in Chess circles have been always described as weak players, no man really wants to play against them.
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They are pushed, in all cultures, to play against each other in the corners of tournament halls
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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.
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Illustration from Die Schachspieler und ihre Welt by Arpad Bauer (Berlin, 1911)
However, their beauty are highly admired in Arts……………
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�ٍ Grandmaster Susan Polgar
……and Photography!
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Photography have transformed a strong Grandmaster like Alexandra Kosteniuk (right) from .……
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……a just another strong player, to…
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……the most beautiful chess player
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She is the ultimate Queen of Chess
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……and she is everywhere.
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But the real beauty of chess are the pieces
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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
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Steingrimur Eyfjord - at the Palazzo Bianchi Michiel
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Glenn Kaino’s “burning Board”
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Even photographs, as great as this, can not compete with the aesthetic quality of chess pieces .
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Pieces are the centre of every chess photograph. Chess positions make the drama and create the
emotions .
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Even in classical painting
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Pieces can be used in surrealistic
artworks …
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Or nonsense painting
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Chess board can result in abstract drawing
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Or symbolic ones
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Or psychotic ones
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Original sculpture by Alan Boileau on the web at
douglasgallery Or a masterpiece of modern art
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Chess pieces are used as art everywhere
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http://www.dpchallenge.com/how.php?HOW_ID=27
Chess pieces and board sometimes used to create good illusion
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http://turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/chess.html
Chess, the ancient board game, when combined with computer resulted in unimaginable beauty
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ktaeryna lahno chess set
Nevertheless, the best combination is chess pieces and women
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As Alexandra always reminds us
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However, when man confronted both ….a beautiful woman and chess pieces
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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