Tag Archives: Boris Spassky

dada chess: logic vs. transcendence

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Dave

Lenin’s chance meeting with dadaist Tristan Tzara in 1916 was ostensibly arranged to play chess. Was there something in Dada that piqued the revolutionary passions? Or was it a case of a parallax gap; two points between which no connection, … Continue reading →

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chess: Just a pawn in her game

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Dave

Chess has a lot of metaphors associated with it. It given rise to passions that make Jimmy Connors or John McEnroe arguing over line calls seem positively benign. Chess pieces have been used as murder weapons and the clergy in … Continue reading →

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enchanted chessmen: passion and mayhem

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Dave

It is an Island, in the outer Hebrides, that has left behind a legacy of ghosts and spirits that centuries of austere, harsh and sometimes reactionary Christianity have been helpless in extinguishing. They are called the Lewis Chessmen and their … Continue reading →