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Found at #BookBarn in #Niantic, #Connecticut.

#chess

a dramatic pulpy looking book called "Chess with a Dragon". A caption reads "One wrong move and humanity with be lost... forever!"

A table that is a large chess board with pieces on it.

Another Goodwill chess board to give out at tomorrow night's kid's chess club. Each of these cost only about $5, plus another few dollars for the wooden box, but I think it makes the winner's day.

One of the parents works at Lego and has donated a board for next month's giveaway.

#chess #goodwill

an ornate, hexagonal wooden box carved like a flower on a black and white chess board.

the hexagonal box opens to reveal small black and white wooden pieces.

In Matt Haig's "The Midnight Library", chess is used as a metaphor for the possibilities of life. Given the multitude of options available to players, games can play out in a vast number of different ways, just as decisions in our lives can result in many outcomes.

Lovely book. I think I will start sharing books with chess along with other chess media.

#chess #books #TheMidnightLibrary #bookstodon

the cover of matt haig's book, the midnight library, which illustrates many doors containing different lives.

This is a great story.

"School custodian leads student chess teams to victory"
David Bishop -— who gets the joke about his last name — cleans classrooms, and also cleans up at chess tournaments, so to speak.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/06/01/chess-coach-custodian-bishop-maine/

#chess

An older man (facing the camera) plays chess with a 6th-grade boy (over the shoulder)

Agreed! Here is an interesting article: it's a shame that there isn't a digital copy. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-29-02-0608

yes!

A sliding #chess board from Morocco.

I wonder how one makes this...

source: https://v.redd.it/c3x3qly37e2b1

#BenFranklin's book on #chess. The oldest published book on chess in the United States.

an aging leather bound book. one open page shows the board and pieces, the other shows and illustrative cover page.

A soap stone #chess set from #Kenya.

a red, white, and black chess stone chess set. a salamander is carved on the outside.

Sigmund Freud's chess set on display in the Sigmund Freud museum in Vienna, Austria.

“He who hopes to learn the fine art of the game of chess from books will soon discover that only the opening and closing moves of the game admit of exhaustive systematic description, and that the endless variety of the moves which develop from the opening defies description; the gap left in the instructions can only be filled in by the zealous study of games fought out by master-hands.” - Sigmund Freud

"Freud played a good deal of chess in coffee houses in the earlier years, but he came to find the concentration more of a strain than an enjoyment, and after 1901 he gave it up altogether."

Source: http://www.edochess.ca/batgirl/Psychoanalysis.html

Image sources:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/124u8s8/sigmund_freuds_chess_set_from_sigmund_freud/
https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter96.html

#chess #freud #history #SigmundFreud

A fold out chess box on display in a museum. The front of the box opens in wings to reveal white and black pieces, and the lid lfts up to reveal a half-board.

Yes. He was either making them fight or "kiss".

Kids chess!

Another great #chess club. #RockyHillCT

a young boy plays woth chess pieces. he is in the foreground and several other games stretch behind him.

Game 12 of the world #chess championship has been dramatic, to judge by the faces of its competitors. Ding Liren snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, and his competitor Ian Nepomniachtchi is not happy about it.

Learn more about the game: https://www.chess.com/news/view/fide-world-chess-championship-2023-game-12

Image Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/12zgn86/the_emotions_of_move_35/

#DingLiren #IanNepomniachtchi #FIDE

A series of 12 photos showing Ding Liren and Ian Nepomniachtchi playing chess. Ding is impassive in each photo, but Nepo is clearly struggling.

Source: https://i.redd.it/xk3dnil0p5sa1.jpg

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a chessboard casting a strange shadow in a sunbeam.

Restoration complete!

I found a #chess board at #Goodwill ($3!) that was beautiful but missing a few pieces. I carved replacement pieces out of a stick from the yard, added magnets to the base, and stained replacements.

Now i'll have a lovely board to give away at kids #chess club tomorrow!

#crafting

a set of chess pieces with three missing

three chess pieces, a rook, a bishop, and a pawn, each next to a stick cut to equal size

Chess ♟️ boosted:

I run a #chess club for younger children , and I like to bring in a board to give away every week. I found this beautiful little board at #Goodwill, just $3.00! But it is missing three pieces. I'm going to try and replace them through carving so I can give away a complete set.

a round chess board, with a small set of pieces that pop out from the inside.

a black rook on a chess board, with an uncarved wood stick beside it.

Thanks for the mention!

I run a #chess club for younger children , and I like to bring in a board to give away every week. I found this beautiful little board at #Goodwill, just $3.00! But it is missing three pieces. I'm going to try and replace them through carving so I can give away a complete set.

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