Chess aesthetics

I put a spell on you

Roger Mayne, Chess Competition, London, 1956

Fight me

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

Nana Alexandria -  three-time Soviet women’s champion

@mkvx

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

Vladimir and Vera Nabokov by Philippe Halsman - 1966

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

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

Soviet postcard, 1955

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

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