Celebrating International Chess Day.
#chessday #chessboard #chessgame #chessplayer #chesslover #chessmaster #chessmoves #chesslife #checkmate #chessclub #chesspuzzle #chesstournament #ajedrez #chesspiece #chesstactics #chessnotcheckers #chessislife #chessmemes #magnuscarlsen #chessproblems #schach #chessset #xadrez #chesspuzzles #scacchi #fide #echecs #art #chessiesofinstagram #chesslove
https://itsmostamazingindia.wordpress.com/2025/07/20/celebrating-international-chess-day/
#Trans #icon #LaverneCox unveiled as the #ChessPiece on #TheMaskedSinger.
The #OrangeistheNewBlack #star and #trans #activist was #unmasked as the #mystery #celebrity #singer inside the elaborate chess piece #costume during Wednesday night’s (23 October) episode of the #US #TV #series.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TV #Music #Representation #Culture
How to make your own Kinger from The Amazing Digital Circus costume! #chess #chesspiece #glitchproductions #gooseworx #king #kinger #theamazingdigitalcircus #webseries #youtube #cosplay #costume
https://carboncostume.com/kinger-from-the-amazing-digital-circus/
#ChessmenAndChessSets
#ChessInVisualArts
Lucas Kilian (1579-1637)
Set of chess pieces on tendrils
Engraving
1616
Detail from: #Selenus1616 (👇 ALT)
#Chessmen #ChessPiece #SelenusChessmen #VisualArts #engraving #LucasKilian
Cf. the discussion in: twitter.com/babel56/status…
4/5
twitter.com/babel56/status/158…
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Chess piece: Bishop
Cologne; England
Ivory
H. 5.2 cm; W. 3.9 cm; D. 2.3 cm
11th-12th century (?)
Musée de Cluny, Paris
#chessmen #ChessPiece #bishop #MiddleAges
📷 @museecluny
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Josef Hartwig (1880-1956)
Chess pieces: blue king and orange queen
Wood, paint and felt
6 x 3.3 x 3.3 cm (#king)
5.9 x 3.2 x 3.2 cm (#queen)
1923
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Mass.
#ChessPiece #JosefHartwig
#Bauhaus #BauhausChessSet
📷 @harvartmuseums
Do you play chess? I love it, but well, I'm not really getting better. I sketched this years ago, but inked it this year.
#chess #horse #ChessPiece #InkDrawing #DigitalDrawing
@drasskin = Frontispiz from:
Vida 1736 Scacchia Ludus
➡️ books.google.de/books?id=DqBWA…
#MarcusHieronymusVida
#ChessInVisualArts #Vida1736
BTW: "We also owe to Vida the introduction of the tower (= rook) into chess."
#ChessmenAndChessSets #elephant #rook #ChessPiece
➡️ chess-museum.com/cyclopes-eleph…
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Chess piece: Rook
South german
2nd half of the 16th century
Wood; oil, silver and gold colour
H: 5,6-6 cm
Ambras Castle, Innsbruck, Austria
#chessmen #ChessPiece #rook #elephant
📷 khm.at/unterstuetzen/…
twitter.com/babel56/status/144…
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Chess piece: Rook (Roche)
Engraving
from: G. Selenus, Das Schach- und König-Spiel, Leipzig: Groß, 1616
#chessmen #ChessPiece #rook #elephant #VisialArts #engraving #Selenus1616 #ChessInVisualArts
➡️ chess-museum.com/cyclopes-eleph…
➡️ de.chessbase.com/post/austellun…
❗️Notice the Selenus chessmen❗️
Any other examples known before 1616? I. e. before the chess book of Augustus II (1579–1666) = Gustavus Selenus?
#ChessmenAndChessSets
#chesssmen #ChessPiece #SelenusStyle #SelenusChessSet #SelenusChessmen #SelenusChessPieces #Selenus1616
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Chess Piece: King
Ivory
7.6 x 5.2 x 3.2 cm
German (Cologne)
End of 12th century
The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
#chessmen #ChessPiece #king #MiddleAges
#ChessmenAndChessSets
Chess Piece: Bishop
Attributed to Western Islamic Lands
Ivory
H. 9 cm, D. 5,9 cm
8th–10th century
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
#chessmen #ChessPiece #bishop #MiddleAges #IslamicArt
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Chess Piece: Knight
Ivory
Egyptian, Western European
10th-11th century; head added 12th-13th century
The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
#chessmen #ChessPiece #knight #MiddleAges
This chess piece was found in an excavation in our back yard. It's 1 of only about 50 #medieval chess pieces found in England &, at only 21.7mm high, it is unique in being the smallest medieval #arabic #ChessPiece known in the country. #WallingfordUK #Oxfordshire #Chess
taking the bishop...
