From: Breaking PointAuthor: James E. Gunn

Chess and Beauty

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Women in Chess circles have been always described as weak players, no man really wants to play against them.

They are pushed, in all cultures, to play against each other in the corners of tournament halls

Chess match between WGM Irina Krush, US Women Chess Champion and Barbary Macaque in Gibraltar , Photo Courtesy of Dean Ippolito

Some say that women in chess are slightly more clever than monkeys.

Illustration from Die Schachspieler und ihre Welt by Arpad Bauer (Berlin, 1911)

However, their beauty are highly admired in Arts……………

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……and Photography!

Photography have transformed a strong Grandmaster like Alexandra Kosteniuk (right) from .……

……a just another strong player, to…

……the most beautiful chess player

She is the ultimate Queen of Chess

……and she is everywhere.

But the real beauty of chess are the pieces

The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem. …I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists Marcel Duchamp

Steingrimur Eyfjord - at the Palazzo Bianchi Michiel

Glenn Kaino’s “burning Board”

Even photographs, as great as this, can not compete with the aesthetic quality of chess pieces .

Pieces are the centre of every chess photograph. Chess positions make the drama and create the

emotions .

Even in classical painting

Pieces can be used in surrealistic

artworks …

Or nonsense painting

Chess board can result in abstract drawing

Or symbolic ones

Or psychotic ones

Original sculpture by Alan Boileau on the web at

douglasgallery Or a masterpiece of modern art

Chess pieces are used as art everywhere

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Chess pieces and board sometimes used to create good illusion

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Chess, the ancient board game, when combined with computer resulted in unimaginable beauty

ktaeryna lahno chess set

Nevertheless, the best combination is chess pieces and women

As Alexandra always reminds us

However, when man confronted both ….a beautiful woman and chess pieces

His only concern is the current position in front of him…that is chess position. the pieces are the ultimate

beauty…well, I'm not sure. I’m confused a bit