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Tag Archives: Boris Spassky
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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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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