Marcel Duchamp's world tour
Jan 7, 2010
"Playing Chess with Tracey," painted in 2003 by the British artist Peter Blake. From his series, Marcel Duchamp's World Tour.
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Hole in the Clouds
Tag: chess
Kelley and Coula
Nov 1, 2014
Back in the '80s, when Kelley was a little girl growing up in Mobile, Alabama, the camera caught up with her and her giagia (yaya) as they settled down into the couch for a game of chess.
We are told that Kelley turns 36 this month. Her giagia, Coula, lived to the age of 95, long enough to get to know her great-grandson, Kelley's son Thomas.
Is there anything more adorable than a grandmother-granddaughter chess match? Let's not overthink that. It's perfect.
Game Over
Nov 13, 2014
Picking up the pieces last summer in the plaza at downtown Seattle's Westlake Mall.
Queen to Mouth Gambit
Mar 24, 2017
You know what they say: yes, it looks impressive, but the fact is that Allen probably beats his niece two games out of three.
The Cuban Game, #2
Mar 14, 2018
There are chess players on the streets of Havana, and Cubans have won the World Chess Championship multiple times, notably in 1921 when José Raúl Capablanca beat the longtime German champion Emanuel Lasker.
Ché Guevara was a chess player who started an annual international chess tournament in Havana in 1962, when he was serving as post-revolutionary head of the Cuban National Bank. Here, Ché watches the tournament play of a Yugoslavian revolutionary he had befriended:
In 1965, the U.S. government would not allow Bobby Fischer to travel to Cuba to participate in the tournament, so he played via telex from New York.
Today, Cuban children learn to play chess at school, and last fall they participated in a national tournament commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Ché's death.
