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angel of history on an 8×8 dance floor
Eight by Eight. Sixty for square checkerboard of white and black. Said to hold the mysteries of the sacred geometry of ancient Egypt and something inside these arcane permutations and combinations made Bobby Fischer click.It was a form of shamanism … Continue reading
dada chess: logic vs. transcendence
Lenin’s chance meeting with dadaist Tristan Tzara in 1916 was ostensibly arranged to play chess. Was there something in Dada that piqued the revolutionary passions? Or was it a case of a parallax gap; two points between which no connection, … Continue reading
chess: Just a pawn in her game
Chess has a lot of metaphors associated with it. It given rise to passions that make Jimmy Connors or John McEnroe arguing over line calls seem positively benign. Chess pieces have been used as murder weapons and the clergy in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Dylan, Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, Daniel Kramer, Guy Debord, Jeremy Silman, Jimmy Connors, John Lennon, John McEnroe, Jon Hendricks, Leonard Nimoy, Marcel Duchamp, Nate Jarvis, Nathan Heller, Robert Filliou, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Middleton, Yoko Ono
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Beyond the Metaphor of sacrifice : the grandmaster as poet
In the Medieval period, an age of magicians and shamans, it was only natural that they should cast their spells over the game; and there were a great many chessboards on which it was considered sheer folly to be the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleister Crowley, Benjamin Franklin chess, Bobby Fischer, Caen Aerte, Edgar Allan Poe, Emma Lowenstramm, Eve Babitz, Fidel Castro chess, G.K. Chesterton, Julian Wasser, Marcel Duchamp, Maxim Gorky, Steven B. Gerrard, Tristan Tzara
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Chess a genteel game? … full-contact body and mind
Not all chess matches have had a happy, sportsmanlike end.Does chess encourage violence or discourage it? It may not be a leisure activity of refinement and erudition that many outsiders hold the image of it to be. In fact the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleister Crowley, Bobby Fischer, Chess, Chess boxing, Edward Lasker, Fernando Pessoa, Irving Finkel Lewis Chessmen, Judith Polgar, Lewis Chessmen, Ralph Charell, Simon Armitage, Stanley Kubrick, Thomas Rendall, Vladimir Nabokov
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enchanted chessmen: passion and mayhem
It is an Island, in the outer Hebrides, that has left behind a legacy of ghosts and spirits that centuries of austere, harsh and sometimes reactionary Christianity have been helpless in extinguishing. They are called the Lewis Chessmen and their … Continue reading
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Tagged Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, Harry Potter Chess, Irving Finkel, Irving Finkel Lewis Chessmen, Jan Newton, Jeremy Silman, Maev Kennedy, Marcel Duchamp, Nigel Short, Richard Dawkins, Thorarinsson
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Finding bobby fisher: Back to Iceland?
Maybe the celebrated American chess champion knew something, a secret on the game he never disclosed. On the isle of Lewis on the outer fringe of the Northern Hebrides, the existence of giant chessmen does not go unnoticed. Here, as … Continue reading
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Tagged Bobby Fischer, Danny Yee, David H. Caldwell, Dylan Loeb McClain, Harry Potter, Irving Finkel, Irving Finkel Lewis Chessmen, Jan Newton, Jeremy Silman, Lewis Chessmen, Maev Kennedy, Marcel Duchamp, Reuben Fine, Richard Reti, Rudolf Spielman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Taylor Edgar, Tim Cornwell, Vladimir Nabokov
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THE PRODIGIES: CHECK-MATE ON GENIUS
The cutoff for what is often considered ”gifted” is an IQ score that is among the top two percent of the population, which is a score of 130 on the Wechsler scales, or 132 on the Stanford-Binet scale. This sole … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Bobby Fischer, Britney Spears, Catharine Morris Cox, Chris Hitchens, David Duke, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Edison, Francis Galton, Gary Kasparov, Goethe, Grady M. Towers, Handel, IQ Tests, James Woods, Jeremy Schaap, John Stuart Mill, Kevin MacDonald, Lord Byron, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Mozart, Muhammed Ali, Noam Chomsky, Paul McCartney, Robert S. Albert, Sartre, Spinoza, Stanford-Binet Scale, Voltaire, Weschler Scale, William E. Benet, William James Sidis
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