As a kind of follow-up on the previous post I’ll have to show you this picture from Cindy Seigle. This is one of the many beautiful chess sets set up in the atrium at the West Baden Springs Hotel in Orange County, Indiana.
Chess set at the West Baden Springs Hotel by cindy47452
Chess is often played with beautiful pieces. This is one of the reasons to start playing chess. We like the pieces and we like the game. The picture below illustrates some of this beauty.
Chess by frankblacknoir
Tag Galaxy is a 2008 diploma thesis project by Steven Wood that enables you to browse through the galaxy of pictures by entering tags. After entering a tag related tags are shown visualized by other planets in an orbit around the “world” of selected tags.
You’ll have to see it for yourself.
The picture above is the [...]
Zugzwang is a position in which every move would make the position worse, and the player that has to move would be better off if he could pass and not move at all. But in chess no such thing as skipping a move is allowed. You are forced to move.
In the picture above whoever [...]
This is a reduced part of a beautiful chess image of which the original can be found at the site of Fantasy Art 3D Wallpapers: modern digital art, 3D artists, computer desktop backgrounds.
The mentioned site contains a lot of beautiful pictures, but this one is my favorite. It illustrates the beauty of chess.