Games You Can Play with your Pussy

...And Lots of Other Stuff Cat Owners Should Know.

Apparently this a real book. Not sure if a chess book at all, but at least the cover pays hommage to the King of the Games.

Notice the black-and-red 7x5 chessboard, only White pieces (one Knight, one Pawn and probably one Queen)

I found it funny, the chessboard, the cat... you know...

Alfred J. Kwak

A nice screenshot of lovely Alfred J. Kwak playing chess.
I remember watching the show years ago. It must be 1989-1991 as the Wikipedia article says.

Topalov - Kamsky match logo

Today the match between Topalov and Kamsky started. The first game ended in a draw after an interesting Grünfeld in which Topalov sacrificed a pawn for the initiative.

We bring here the logo of the match, Bulgarian (Cyrillic) version and chess.com version. I took it from Susan Polgar's blog.

There is a smaller version that uses the Latin alphabet in the official webpage, but I suppose most chessplayers -smart guys- will be able to read here TOPALOV-KAMSKY, SOFIA 2009.

If we use our mind to delete the chess.com logo, as we would do to imagine the chessboard after some material exchange and simplification, we can see two eagles (or are they vultures?) on top of two spheres that evoke the head of two pawns: a white pawn, a black pawn.

It is going to be a great match. It is already a great logo.

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Elephants playing chess

Indeed the one on the right seems better equipped. The left one looks more beautiful, though.