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.

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.

Working hard

I came across this picture in flickr, and I loved it. It reminds me of my boss a lot. He always says that working hard always pays off in the long term, but for sure he is thinking that he will be beneficiary of our tolling in the short or middle term. I would say the small piece is a Bishop rather than a pawn. No doubt the big figure is a King. Maybe Hugh does not know a lot about chess, as only pawns are entitled to metamorphose change after arriving to the eight file, and even with that, the only piece they cannot become is the King. Anyway, I love the image.

Drinking Chess

image credit: puyol5 at http://weblog.ch/ (seen here)

Not sure if this thing exists or not. The simple rule would be: you drink as many shots as enemy pieces you take.

Chess has an intimate relationship with alcohol, and there are many good examples in the history of our game. We do not endorse any abuse here, though. Just a funny thing.

Berlin Alexanderplatz

 

Berlin Alexanderplatz. January 2007. A table in a café. 4x4 chessboard which includes every single piece, but the Rook appears twice. It is hard to determine the colour of some of the pieces as only the Bishop and the Knight are totally White.

Chess cookies

Chess is no cookie, but anyway there is a brand that sells black-and-white biscuits under that name.

For the information we can read on the package, "Chess" are 5 rich chocolate sandwich cookies, marketed by Munchy's in the Netherlands. Maybe also in other countries, but I took the picture in a Dutch supermarket in The Hague in September 2004.

Regarding chess motifs, we can see that every cookie has been branded with the word "chess". The fourth letter, the first S is a chess knight similar to a white Pegasus. On the picture we can see a chessboard (partially), it includes three Black pieces: a knight, a bishop and the queen.

Fun Games for Babies

From the book "Baby Manual for Drug Addicts"