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The Parrot's Rare Chess Photo Collection Album 5
These images and text first
appeared in The Parrot's column's Also enjoy: Album #1 & Album #2 & Album 3 & Album #4 & Album 5
As well as regretting the worst taste in chess holiday presents - see the lovely boards!
I wonder if they use waterproof clocks? Of course, having one silly idea leads to another, so can any reader tell me if there has every been a pool simul? The GM would swim around in the middle of a group of…
I just find the images, a caption, anybody? I can’t think of one this week, when I try my mind just googles at this one.
[Editor: how about 'knight to carousel three'?]
There simply aren’t many people like this in the chess world.
Goodbye old friend. We have nothing more to say to each other now, though we said enough when we did for seven life-times. Not even Dostoyevski raised so many possibilities, nor Pushkin, nor even Garry Kasparov. They only spoke of what is Russia. But you were a world citizen. In time though, we shared these Russians with you, and in chess there are the same possibilities of appreciation, far beyond the technical aspect of your work, but which has to do with the cultural aspect of our world game. Excuse me for not making much sense at the moment, but I am glad I said it better, earlier, and that you heard it.
A collection of her drawings, paintings and photographs of chess, complimenting other graphic works is on view on-line. I particularly liked the painting of the Knight and its moves, which is one of a series of abstract paintings on piece and move. Not all the paintings are abstracts nor on chess, but chess is a strong theme.
Well worth a look, and since the site features on-going contributions, also worth a book-mark for continuous looking: http://sofiapolgar.com/Default.aspx
But I do like that street chess idea. Someone wrote in six months ago to say there was a large set outside their local mall [sorry, forgotten where] and there were always crowds around it. They also said that many people in the crowd admitted they didn’t really understand chess very well– but they somehow liked watching it anyway. This looks like a canvas mat placed on the cobbles – does anyone do this where you are? [They don’t have to have x-ray vision too.]
I note that this year the contact information for the Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls (February 2009) July 26 - 31 at Texas Tech University (TTU) in Lubbock, Texas. Contact info: The Susan Polgar Foundation can be contacted at 806-742-7742 (phone) or through SusanPolgar@aol.com (email). NOTICE TO ALL STATE OFFICIALS: Please send the nomination from your state to Mr. Dewain Barber (amchesseq@aol.com), Chairperson of the Polgar Committee.
One thing leads to another… A funny thing happened when I went looking for a recent photo of Larry Evans – one of the first Google referenced was Chessville… Where Larry Evans was being interviewed by Larry Parr. One anecdote from that interview was the following game where Fischer remarked to Evans that he was the first person able to resist Bc4 in the Najdorf. In looking around for a picture of the GM, here he is giving a lecture about that game:
Fischer-Evans US Championship 1958 Nadjorf Sicilian
And Fun for All in Washington State Here is a very cheerful chess video from Washington State – about four minutes featuring players who have just about got the moves together, plus a couple tyros.
The direct URL is http://vimeo.com/2968004. In addition Northwest Chess has the following resources to share [thanks to Rusty Miller]. A BEST of Section has been added recently to the website for NORTHWEST CHESS Magazine the publication started in 1947 to cover chess in Washington and Oregon and some times British Columbia. Read about Yasser Seirawan playing in his first International Event and about Dan WADE written by Larry Parr.
A Chessville columnist used some of the material from his column in his new title with Everyman publishing [cover provisional] to be published later this year; despite his obvious black joke about the age of his Chessville colleagues..
And assorted other images we thought you'd enjoy seeing again, without caption! Read through this page of The parrot's archive to find these images in context.
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But
if you got worse, tell me - There are other ways to enjoy the season. The
pool scene is recent, but I forgot where it comes from, it doesn’t look like
upper New England in winter.
One
of the most interesting chess picture sites these days is by Sophia
Polgar.
The pencil drawing is entitled ‘Hedgehog’ and is rather typical of the wit
of Sophia, who I think was once described by a sister as ‘the greatest of
all of us.’
O
– Come on guys! Just because you’re Scandinavians in the Magnus-Era doesn’t
mean…
Recently
I asked for pictures of people playing with big chess pieces: here is
one from the Annual Susan Polgar event for girls.
For
most players this is their first tournament, and congratulations to the
organizers in Washington for making it a well lit and cheerful experience.
