Sunday 21 March 2010

Evolution in Modern Ideas in Chess


I see the book by Richard Réti has been published in a new edition. I kind of like the motif in the cover of the book. It is maybe not very polished, but it is a nice idea anyway. In the end, I supposed the Darwinian idea of evolution can apply to chess ideas, as the fittest of them survive while the unfit are discarded and pass to the bin of the history.
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Wednesday 17 March 2010

Fox Playing Hen


I cannot see much of the chessboard. It is so dark in the burrow. It is a 6x6 chessboard. The fox is playing as White and the hen moves the Black pieces. The fox reminds me of Firefox.
I saw the image in this nice Fox tale posted at Poemas del Río Wang.
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Sunday 7 March 2010

Chess club in Wrocław


Last month I spent a weekend in the Lower Silesian capital, the Polish city of Wrocław In the past, it used to belong to Germany and its name was Breslau. This fact is relevant for chess players, as Breslau was the birthplace in 1818, of Adolf Anderssen. Anderssen was one of the most importan players of the 19th century and will always be remembered by his Immortal Game. His tomb can still be visited in the cemetery of Osobowicki, to where I did not have time to go.

Walking past the Market Square (Rynek) by a street named Wita Stwosza I came across this chess club. I liked their logo a lot (if the mouth biting a pawn is the logo) and the pictures with which they covered the shop windows. The design is youthful and fresh and spins around the idea that chess is good fun. Well done, guys.