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A pirate rook in the Royal Chess game. She was happy she had been upgraded from pawn. A nice set of boobs will help when it comes to that, huh? :-D
Christchurch Square - Chess Game
Christchurch City Square
Christchurch
New Zealand
Photo Taken With:
Canon PowerShot S2 IS
+ 12x optical zoom (36-432mm equiv.)
+ 5.0 million effective pixels
+ 1.8-inch tilt-and-swivel LCD monitor
+ Color electronic viewfinder
+ Optical Image Stabilizer (3 modes)
+ Ultrasonic motor (USM)
+ Extra-long movie mode with enhanced VGA resolution and stereo sound
+ Canon DIGIC II processor with iSAPS
+ PictBridge and Canon Direct Print compatible – no PC required
+ Six new 'special scene' shooting modes
+ Storage: SD Card
+ Sensitivity: Auto, ISO 50 - 400
Edited With:
Adobe Photoshop 7
Plus:
Adobe AIR.
TiltShift Generator
A shot of old people playing chess game in Chinatown Singapore..
PP: Original shot with minor cropping only..
Camera used: Sony DSLR Alpha 850.
Lens: SAL 100mm Telemacro f/2.8
The Chess Boards are a trademark fixture in Pioneer Square in Downtown Portland. It's always interesting and entertaining to watch a game or two. Superior concentration is a prerequisite for every potential player. While the player's own worlds come to a brief pause, life proceeds in earnest: pedestrians parade past on NW Morrison, Tri-Met passengers patiently (or impatiently) await their train, and drivers stream past, each completing their own personal chess game daily.
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John is playing a game against a young Russian man. St Petersburg 2006. Hes work was to pick up foreign cars from St Pitersburg and drive for 2,000km! to deliver it to a dealer. What a crazy way of doing things.
He said he was working another job as well, but in Russia there arent many jobs so people do what they must to make a living.
He was nice and we shouted him some beers, he won that game too.
Lost in a game of chess.....again, but i thought it made for a good photo against the fire. (i really need to get better)
While Daddy tried very hard to teach Elizabeth some chess basics, she wanted to set everything up and knock it down instead.
Marostica (Maròstega in veneto) è un comune di 12.845 abitanti della provincia di Vicenza, sorge ai piedi dell'Altopiano di Asiago.È nota in tutto il mondo per la partita a scacchi che si svolge ogni due anni (anni pari) con personaggi viventi nella piazza cittadina, nel secondo fine settimana di settembre: è una tradizione avviata nel 1923 ispirata ad un evento del 1454. Per questa storica manifestazione la cittadina vicentina viene anche soprannominata "la città degli scacchi".Marostica, adagiata sulla fascia pedemontana che, amena e verdeggiante si estende dall'Astico al Brenta, ha sempre suscitato un irresistibile fascino per le bellezze naturali di cui è ricca e per un passato storico originale e glorioso.Le sue colline assolate, ove tuttora si coltivano il ciliegio, la vite e l'olivo, e l'immediata pianura sottostante favorirono l'insediamento di nuclei umani fin dai più remoti tempi della preistoria.Marostica è famosa in tutto il mondo per uno spettacolo folcloristico di ambientazione storica in costume che si svolge il secondo fine settimana di settembre degli anni pari, la "Partita a scacchi a personaggi viventi" che si ispira ad una vicenda ambientata nel 1454.
Marostica is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, northern Italy. It is mostly famous for its living chess event and for the local cherry variety.The name of the city can be traced back to the Venetic (Adriatic Veneti) language and recalls the hills (mar/maros) and the several streams of water (rost) coming down from the adjacent mountains and the verb "to have" in Venetic language (ga). Hence the name means "that has mountains and hills". Several Venetic findings have been discovered, dating back to the first millennium B.C. When the Adriatic Veneti federated with the Romans, they slowly abandoned their alphabet (Venetic) to use the Latin one.The spoken language evolved and merged with the Gallo-Iberian branch of Romance languages to form the modern-day Venetian Language (of which there are a number of branches, including Padovano, Veneziano, Veronese, Feltrino, and so on). The spoken language remained Venetian which is forbidden and discriminated since the Italian invasion of Venetian lands in 1867. The Venetian Language is widely used throughout the region.Between the 11th and 13th centuries, the locality was greatly influenced by several members of the important medieval family from the Veneto, known as the Ezzelini it:Ezzelini. They were finally defeated in 1260. Marostega was a Venetian city until the Italian invasion which caused a diaspora and cultural ethnocide of the population of the area, who was forced to look for fortune in Brasil and many other places in the world.Marostega is famous all over the world for the human chess game it carries out every other year, with personages living in the city public square. Starting in the second week of September, it is a theatrical play dating back to in 1923and officially registered after second world war by comedy player Vucetich.Every even year, in September, a game of chess using live pieces is played. After the First World War, members of the local chess club began playing chess in the main square and decided to play a game of chess using people as the gamepieces. After the Second World War, the comedy writer Vucetich Mirko authored a play in which "Two noblemen, Renaldo D'Anganaro and Vieri da Vallanora, fell in love with the beautiful Lionora, daughter of the local lord, Taddeo Parisio. As was the custom at that time, they challenged each other to a duel to win the hand of Lionora. The Lord of Marostega, not wanting to make an enemy of either suitor or lose them in a duel, forbade the encounter. Instead he decreed that the two rivals would play a chess game, and the winner would have the hand of Lionora. The loser of the chess game would also join the family, through marrying her younger sister, Oldrada. During the play the game takes place on the square in front of the Lower Castle with supporters carrying the noble ensigns of Whites and Blacks, in the presence of the Lord, his noble daughter, the Lords of Angarano and Vallonara, the court and the entire town population. The Lord also decides the challenge would be honoured by an exhibition of armed men, foot-soldiers and knights, with fireworks and dances and music". Needless to say, this literary account has nothing to do with factual history and the chess square in the city was built after the Second World War and after the writing of Vucetich's play. This fictional story is now re-enacted in the main square of Marostega every second Friday, Saturday and Sunday of September of "even" years. The orders are still given to the cast today in the local Language (Venetian) of the "Most Serene Republic of Venice".
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Marostica (Maròstega in veneto) è un comune di 12.845 abitanti della provincia di Vicenza, sorge ai piedi dell'Altopiano di Asiago.È nota in tutto il mondo per la partita a scacchi che si svolge ogni due anni (anni pari) con personaggi viventi nella piazza cittadina, nel secondo fine settimana di settembre: è una tradizione avviata nel 1923 ispirata ad un evento del 1454. Per questa storica manifestazione la cittadina vicentina viene anche soprannominata "la città degli scacchi".Marostica, adagiata sulla fascia pedemontana che, amena e verdeggiante si estende dall'Astico al Brenta, ha sempre suscitato un irresistibile fascino per le bellezze naturali di cui è ricca e per un passato storico originale e glorioso.Le sue colline assolate, ove tuttora si coltivano il ciliegio, la vite e l'olivo, e l'immediata pianura sottostante favorirono l'insediamento di nuclei umani fin dai più remoti tempi della preistoria.Marostica è famosa in tutto il mondo per uno spettacolo folcloristico di ambientazione storica in costume che si svolge il secondo fine settimana di settembre degli anni pari, la "Partita a scacchi a personaggi viventi" che si ispira ad una vicenda ambientata nel 1454.
Marostica is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, northern Italy. It is mostly famous for its living chess event and for the local cherry variety.The name of the city can be traced back to the Venetic (Adriatic Veneti) language and recalls the hills (mar/maros) and the several streams of water (rost) coming down from the adjacent mountains and the verb "to have" in Venetic language (ga). Hence the name means "that has mountains and hills". Several Venetic findings have been discovered, dating back to the first millennium B.C. When the Adriatic Veneti federated with the Romans, they slowly abandoned their alphabet (Venetic) to use the Latin one.The spoken language evolved and merged with the Gallo-Iberian branch of Romance languages to form the modern-day Venetian Language (of which there are a number of branches, including Padovano, Veneziano, Veronese, Feltrino, and so on). The spoken language remained Venetian which is forbidden and discriminated since the Italian invasion of Venetian lands in 1867. The Venetian Language is widely used throughout the region.Between the 11th and 13th centuries, the locality was greatly influenced by several members of the important medieval family from the Veneto, known as the Ezzelini it:Ezzelini. They were finally defeated in 1260. Marostega was a Venetian city until the Italian invasion which caused a diaspora and cultural ethnocide of the population of the area, who was forced to look for fortune in Brasil and many other places in the world.Marostega is famous all over the world for the human chess game it carries out every other year, with personages living in the city public square. Starting in the second week of September, it is a theatrical play dating back to in 1923and officially registered after second world war by comedy player Vucetich.Every even year, in September, a game of chess using live pieces is played. After the First World War, members of the local chess club began playing chess in the main square and decided to play a game of chess using people as the gamepieces. After the Second World War, the comedy writer Vucetich Mirko authored a play in which "Two noblemen, Renaldo D'Anganaro and Vieri da Vallanora, fell in love with the beautiful Lionora, daughter of the local lord, Taddeo Parisio. As was the custom at that time, they challenged each other to a duel to win the hand of Lionora. The Lord of Marostega, not wanting to make an enemy of either suitor or lose them in a duel, forbade the encounter. Instead he decreed that the two rivals would play a chess game, and the winner would have the hand of Lionora. The loser of the chess game would also join the family, through marrying her younger sister, Oldrada. During the play the game takes place on the square in front of the Lower Castle with supporters carrying the noble ensigns of Whites and Blacks, in the presence of the Lord, his noble daughter, the Lords of Angarano and Vallonara, the court and the entire town population. The Lord also decides the challenge would be honoured by an exhibition of armed men, foot-soldiers and knights, with fireworks and dances and music". Needless to say, this literary account has nothing to do with factual history and the chess square in the city was built after the Second World War and after the writing of Vucetich's play. This fictional story is now re-enacted in the main square of Marostega every second Friday, Saturday and Sunday of September of "even" years. The orders are still given to the cast today in the local Language (Venetian) of the "Most Serene Republic of Venice".
PLAYING WITH SENSES by Makiko Shinoda
PERCEPTIBLE CHESS GAME
What makes a toy a good toy? Room for sensory discovery, imagination and creativity. Research that Makiko Shinoda has done on the relationship between children and their toys shows that these elements are not found as often in plastic toys or computer games in which form and function are standardized. But there is a different way. A universal toy set that evolves over time and with a child’s age. While toddlers can use the set as building blocks, older children can play chess with it. A game of chess as a metaphor in which generations, cultures, ethnicities can meet. The pieces in the game do not look like chess pieces; they vary in weight, smell, material, form and texture and this allows the players to mould the game in whichever way they choose. A toy for a lifetime.
exhibition Toegepast 17 (17.11.201-17.02.2013)
Photo: Kristof Vrancken / Z33 / Design Platform Limburg
In Game 8 Library Manager Greg is playing Black. The Community (YOU!) is playing White.
The moves so far:
1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nf3 d6 4.c3 Nd7 5.d5 c6 6.dc6 bc6 7.Be3 Ngf6 8.Bd3 Ng4 9.O-O Ne3 10.fe3 Rb8 11.Qe2 O-O 12.b3 c5 13.Qc2 Qa5 14.Nbd2 Qc3 15.Rac1 Qc2 16.Rc2 Bb7 17.Nc4 h6 18.Rcf2 d5 19.ed5 Bd5 20.Nfd2 Ne5 21.Nxe5 Bxe5 22.e4 Be6 23.Nf3 Bg7 24.Rc2 g5 25.Rc5 g4 26.Ne5 Be5 27.Re5 Rfd8 28.Bb1 Rd2 29.Rc5 Rbd8
What's the next move?
You have until 10-15-12 to FlickrMail what you think the next move should be for White. Greg will respond with his move for Black by next Wednesday.
You can also stop by the Jacaranda Reference Desk or email Librarian Tamar Wolfe at twolfe@scgov.net** (put "Chess Move" in the subject line).
You don't have to live in Sarasota County to suggest a move!
Our webpage for the game is at www.sclibs.net/chess.aspx
Now the legal bit just in case:
**SB 80 - effective July 1, 2006
Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. If you do not want your e-mail address released in response to a public-records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead contact this office by phone or in writing.
Chess diagram created using the PGN viewer on Chess Tempo.
candid
DIAMONDS
Holiday on Ice, 60th Anniversary
directed by Robin Cousins and Sarah Kawahara
choreographed by Sarah Kawahara
production design by Mark Fisher and Ray Winkler
lighting design by Durham Marenghi
puppet/prop design by Michael Curry
costume design by Frank Krenz
Or it could be a chess game. Something that I faintly remember as being aware of when I was little. I don't think I ever played or owned a set though.
Vintage products I discovered in a Chinatown shop that my mom frequents.
A profile view of my cousin Natasha, one of the pawns to my chess game. (made with air-drying clay).
Marx Brothers, bed, chess, game, painting, pillow.
Mom and Dad's house, Stafford, Virginia.
June 3, 2006.
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