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The chess flower - meanwhile a rare springtime flower that got its name from the delicate patterns of its petals.
The Chess flower - one of my springtime favourites. Meanwhile rare in the nature we could find her close to ponds on meadows. This beauty I photographed at an old Arboretum.
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"De Rokade" (UK: Castling chess) does look a bit like a chess board. Spijkenisse, The Netherlands.
Design (2008): Rien de Ruiter, Klunder Architects.
365/2021 - Expanding Horizons ~ 015/365
Treasure Hunt #20 ~ Chess
I had to get this old set down from the loft for this photo. It's not a game I've played in many years and I suspect the set will be heading back to the games storage box pretty quickly! Even with lockdown and time to re-acquaint myself with the rules, it's not a game I particularly enjoy.
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Tansee and in our chess dresses this evening at HEA (Hannington Endowment for the Arts). Dancing at Betty Boo's tunes on her chess board.
Мини-скульптура проекта «Шукай» посвящена киевским шахматистам и установлена в парке Шевченко в месте, где киевляне проводят время за этой игрой уже более 50 лет. Скульптор – Ольга Колесник.
Проєкт «Шукай» — це історія Києва у бронзових мініскульптурках.
«In the 60-s of the previous century, when the interest in playing chess became massive, you could see a lot of followers of the game in the small public gardens, in the courtyards of high-rise buildings and even on the beaches of many Ukrainian cities during summer. At that time the street chess club was spontaneously formed in Kyiv. For that you only needed one chess-board, two chess players and… weather without precipitation. In case the activity attracted leisurely passers-by – tourists, chess players and other activists, they immediately turned into friendly advisers, rigorous judges, eminent grand masters and dedicated supporters.» Y. Bevzenko
The first image that I upload this year 2025, is of a game of chess, a game as old as known, which has its origins in India, although modern chess, as we know it today, has more than five hundred years, the first game of modern chess, was played in Spain in the year 1475, besides being an ancient game and good for exercising our brain, is played by many people from different countries of the world. The black and white pieces face each other in another game, who do you think will win the game?
La primera imagen que subo este año 2025, es de una partida de ajedrez, un juego tan antiguo como conocido, que tiene sus orígenes en la India, aunque el ajedrez moderno, tal y como lo conocemos hoy en día, tiene más de quinientos años, la primera partida de ajedrez moderno, se jugó en España en el año 1475, además de ser un juego antiguo y bueno para ejercitar nuestro cerebro, es jugado por muchas personas de diferentes países del mundo. Las piezas blancas y negras se enfrentan en otra partida, ¿Quién crees que ganará la partida?
Taken at the Victory Show, August Bank Holiday 2021.
Voigtlander Bessa with Voigtar lens (from 1935)
Fomapan 400 film
Lab develop and scan
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Created for the Magnificent Manipulated Masterpieces
172st MMM "Chess game" Challenge
Processed with Midjourney, Photoshop, and Topaz.
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A major youth chess tournament was taking place in Iasi on the day I visited it with more than 2000 participants. The event took place in front of the Palace of Culture.
Macro Mondays, theme: Game Pieces
Glass chess board and pieces, with colored lights beneath the chess board. Each square on the board is 1 inch, and the entire image is less than 3 inches on each side.
Hasselblad/Zeiss Makro-Planar 135mm-f/5.6 manual lens, set to f/5.6.
Chess players looking for someone to make a buck off of at the Union Square Market in New York City before Christmas Eve.
In their fearsome corner, the players rule the slow pieces.
The board delays them until dawn
in its severe field in which two colors hate each other.
Inside radiate magical rigor forms:
Homeric tower, light horse,
armed queen, last king,
oblique bishop and aggressor pawns.
When the players are gone
when time has consumed them,
certainly the rite will not have ceased.
In India, perhaps, this war was ignited
whose amphitheater is today the whole earth.
like the other, this game is infinite.
Dim King, bishop bias,
fierce Queen, direct rook and cunning pawn
on the black and white of the road
seek and wage their armed battle.
They don't know that the pointed hand
of the player governs his fate,
they do not know that an Adamantine rigor
hold his will and his journey.
Also the player is a prisoner
(the sentence belongs to Omar) from another board
of black nights and white days.
God moves the player, and the player the piece.
What god behind god the plot begins
of dust and time and sleep and agonies?
by Jorge Luis Borges
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