#PhilosophersPlayingChess
Kant (?) - Hegel - Schopenhauer (?)
#chess #ChessPlayer #philosopher #ImmanuelKant #GeorgWilhelmFriedrichHegel #ArthurSchopenhauer #LegendsPlayingChess
zeit.de/zeit-magazin/2… via @ZEITmagazin
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#ChessAndMusic
Ennio Morricone (1928-2020)
#OTD #BOTD
#chess #ChessPlayer #composer #conductor #EnnioMorricone #music
📷 Ennio Morricone at home in 2016. Photo by Roberto Messa. Via @GMIanRogers, 2020-07-06

#LegendsPlayingChess
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990)
#chess #ChessPlayer #FriedrichDürrenmatt
📷 Ullstein via magazin.nzz.ch/nzz-am-sonntag…
#ChessAndLiterature
➡️ Exhibition: Friedrich Dürrenmatt - The game (8 Oct 2022 – 12 Feb 2023, Neuchâtel, CH)
➡️ cdn.ch/cdn/de/home/vi…

#PhilosophersPlayingChess
Bertand Russell (1872-1970)
#chess #ChessPlayer #philosopher #BertrandRussell #LegendsPlayingChess
📷 Getty (via news.yahoo.com/bertrand-russe…)

#LegendsPlayingChess
Alain Delon (b. 1935) and Anthony Quinn (1915-2001)
#chess #ChessPlayer #AlainDelon #AnthonyQuinn #actor
📷 via @chessContact, 2018-03-18

#LegendsPlayingChess
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
#chess #ChessPlayer #FriedrichNietzsche #NietzscheHouseSilsMaria #TheBaselFurniture
📷 Wikimedia Commons (Portrait 1882) & Privat Collection (Chess table, Nietzsche House Sils-Maria, Switzerland)

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Lew Tolstoi (1828-1920)
#chess #ChessPlayer #LewTolstoi
📷 via @olimpiuurcan, 2022-09-22




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#LegendsPlayingChess 16&17/n
Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007) and Leonid Kogan (1924-1982)
#chess #ChessPlayer #MstislavRostropovich #cellist #LeonidKogan #violinist #legend
📷 via twitter.com/playinglesshur…



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#LegendsPlayingChess 13/n
Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993)
#OnThisDay in 1917 he was born.
#chess #ChessPlayer #DizzyGillespie #trumpeter #legend
📷Charles “Teenie” Harris, DG playing with Harold Keith, Feb. 1958, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
📷Jet Magazine June 17, 1954

#LegendsPlayingChess 11&12/n
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) and Zino Francescatti (1902-1991)
#OnThisDay in 1990 Leonard Bernstein died.
#chess #ChessPlayer #LeonardBernstein #conductor #composer #pianist #ZinoFrancescatti #violinist #legend
📷 via pinterest.com

#LegendsPlayingChess 10/n
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
#OnThisDay in 1968 the French artist and chess player died.
#chess #MarcelDuchamp #DuchampMarcel #ChessPlayer #artist #legend #ChessInVisualArts #VisualArts #photography #PerformanceArt

#LegendsPlayingChess 10a/n
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
#OnThisDay in 1968 MD died.
#chess #MarcelDuchamp #DuchampMarcel #ChessPlayer #artist #legend #ChessInVisualArts #VisualArts #photography #PerformanceArt

#LegendsPlayingChess 8&9/n
David Oistrakh (1908-1974) and Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
#OnThisDay [N.S.] in 1908 David Oistrakh was born.
#chess #ChessPlayer #SergeiProkofiev #composer #pianist #conductor #DavidOistrakh #violinist #legend
📷en.chessbase.com/post/the-1937-…

#LegendsPlayingChess 7/n
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
#OnThisDay [N.S.] in 1906 he was born.
#chess #ChessPlayer #DmitriShostakovich #composer #pianist #genius
📷 British Chess Magazine, Nov 1946
📷 Nicholas Tikhomirov
Cf. chess.com/blog/RoaringPa…

#LegendsPlayingChess 6/n
Ray Charles (1930-2004)
#OnThisDay in 1930 he is born.
#chess #ChessPlayer #RayCharles #singer #songwriter #composer #legend
📷The Ray Charles Foundation
📷Neal Preston via Pinterest
📷youtube.com/watch?v=lj1gf0…

#LegendsPlayingChess 5/n
Humphrey Bogart
#chess #ChessPlayer #HumphreyBogart #BogartHumphrey #Bogie #actor #legend

#LegendsPlayingChess 3/n
Stanley Kubrick
#chess #ChessPlayer #KubrickStanley #StanleyKubrick #FilmDirector
Watch the fantastic video essay "What Chess Taught #Kubrick About Filmmaking": youtu.be/ohFIPUV4NCQ

#LegendsPlayingChess 2/n
Bob Dylan
#chess #ChessPlayer #BobDylan #Dylan #singer #songwriter #poet #artist #NobelLaureateInLiterature #legend