These pages are devoted to all aspects of chess graphics. Photographs, cartoons, ray tracing, paintings, drawings and much else.
News: The site now has it's own domaine name, http://www.chessgraphics.net/ please update your bookmarks/links. Thankyou. [december 2002]
I am no longer actively maintaining this site but it will remain available in its present form. [june 2002]

Main sections on this site: [Thumbnails] [Catalogue] [Search] [Random] [cartoons] [ray tracing] [films] [pictures] [players] [pieces] [font]

This site is a member of the palamede group of websites which I founded. It is now run by Pascal Villalba with assistance from Eric Bentzen, Gerard Demuydt, Hans Bodlaender, David Howe and John Knudsen.
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• All the pictures on the site in thumbnail format.
• The Traveller Standard freeware true type chess font (version 3). (Also includes details of where to find other fonts and help with using them)

• Ray Tracing now has it's own page.
• Our Cartoon collection

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• Pictures of chess pieces
  • Page 1 (mixed bag scanned from stamps)
  • Page 2 (more pieces scanned from stamps)
  • Page 3 Various pieces dating from the 9th to 13th centuries.
  • The Bauhaus set and various other pieces
  • Russian 18C Steel pieces by Andreyan Sukhanov
  • Four 20th Century pieces and a 19th century french set with board
  • A superb Quicktime VR image contributed by Roberto Milazzi of MR Ipermedia in Italy
  • Handmade chess sets, pieces and boards by Pascal Simon of France
  • The Lewis chess set

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• Paintings, drawings, stories and other pictures
  • The classic Tenniel illustrations to Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
  • Juan Gris: Chess Pieces
  • A lithography by Wolff (19C)
  • Ernest Meissonier : 'The chess game'
  • A 16th century painting of Kurfürst Johann Friedrich der Altere and a Spanish nobleman.
  • The Republic against Louis Philippe - contemporary french political drawings
  • A 15th century allegorical engraving.
  • On of the earliest daguerreotypes by Fox Talbot
  • A French mid 19th century lithograph
  • On an old Polish estate
  • Three 15th century woodcuts
  • A series of pictures slightly reworked from scans done by the Dutch National Library
  • Noblemen and their servants playing chess : a 13C spanish miniature.
  • A ladies chess club in sweden at the turn of the century
  • Two covers from the french chess magazine Zwangzug
  • An old man playing chess in a park in Montreal
  • Chess costumes at the Fasnacht in Basel
  • An 'Electro magnetic Chess player'
  • Kempelens chess playing automate 'The Turk'. The earliest known chess playing automat.
  • A painting of a game of chess by Girolamo da Cremona or Liberale da Verona (1475-1480)
  • Miniature from an early 16th century manuscript of Les Echecs Amoureux
  • This Crazy Game
  • The 1947 Saddlers Wells presentation of the ballet 'Check and Mate'
  • Chess inspired advertisements from the '40s and '50s
  • A delightfull Ludwigsburg porcelaine figurine (1790)
  • A 'valve de miroir' in ivory (1300)
  • Some pictures from a chess exhibition in Brest France
  • Chess at the 'Chambre des Métiers' in Strasbourg. A photomontage of mine.
  • An attractive chess woodcut
  • Give your chess pages a classical look with these designs from 'Le Palamède Français' (1863)
  • A series of black and white 'Ex Libris' designs. Page 1, 2, 3 and 4.
  • A portrait of two chess players by Daumier (1868)
  • An interesting drawing
  • A page of chess posters
  • Two stories with drawing and chess problem by V.Barthe
    • Paulo Boi and the Devil
    • The Problem Cake
  • Drawings by Céline Roos from her course notes for children.
  • An animated chess clock design by Peter Kemner
  • A page of designs by Valentin Albillo
  • Seen enough pictures for the moment? How about a game of giveaway chess?
     
    

    SportsVerlag designs, a superb series of images based on historic chess pieces and scanned from their book covers. Page 1 2 3 4 5

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• Our portrait gallery.

  • A collection of portraits of players
  • Chess photos by Jerry Bibuld
    A major section featuring Jerry Bibulds photographs of players from various tournaments. These photos are copyright with all proceeds going to African Chess Federations.
  • Group photos, tournaments, etc.
    • Coupe de France, Strasbourg - Mulhouse 1998 (Sokolov, Roos & Kallai)
    • The 1998 Tournoi des Générations in Cannes, France
    • A group photo - but who is that?
    • Moscow 1963 Stein/Geller, Spassky/Bronstein, Kortschnoi/Kholomov
    • Britain v. U.S.S.R radio match (Article and photos from CHESS august 1946)
    • The closing festival of the AVRO tournament (Deutsche Schachzeitung december 1938)
    • The participants of the 1922 London International Chess Congress
    • The participants of the Ubeda International Tournament 1997
    • A group of Russian photos from 1975
    • Ussr - rest of the World 1970 group photo
    • The 1936 Nottingham Chess Congress participants (group photo)
    • A tournament in russia in 1905

   

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• Chess in films
  
  • Masques, a thriller starring Phillipe Noiret by Claude Chabrol
  • The Chess Intro to the Avengers
  • Woody Allen in The Front, a black comedy on the McCarthy blacklists
  • A still from 'George of the Jungle'
  • Chico and Harpo Marx in Monkey Business
  • The cartoon version of the story of Anastasia
  • The Tournament - A Polish cartoon film
  • A scene from Eisenstein's film Ivan the Terrible
  • A superb still of John Hurt as Winston Smith in the 1984 version of George Orwell's classic 1984
  • A very short chess scene in Mankiewicz 1949 House of Strangers
  • Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in The Thomas Crown Affair
  • Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in the case of the leaping fish
  • 1856 in a small kingdom in India.. The Chess Players by Satyajit Ray
  • Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre and Rick's Café
  • Lolita
  • Geri's Game, the oscar winning computer animation by Jan Pinkava of Pixar
  • Stills from the russian silent film 'chess fever'
  • Peter O'Toole in Laurence of Arabia
  • Vladek Sheybal as Kronsteen in From Russia with Love
  • The Prisoner - page 1 and 2
  • Another shot from 'The Prisoner'
  • Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre in Casablanca
  • Curd Jurgends in the film of Stefan Zweigs Schachnovelle
  • Charles Boyer during the making of 'The Confidential Agent'

     

• Other and historic
  • Lord Bertrand Russell
  • Yoko Ono
  • Tito
  • Tolstoy playing chess
  • Lenin vs Gorky
  • David Oistrakh vs Sergei Prokofiev

Various images intended as resources for desk top publishing and logos.

Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

some black and white designs of my own 1 2
and two larger versions of a knight/rook design intended for use on tshirts.

Odds and ends

• From the family album.. The Roos family at the 1972 french championships.
• The cover of my 1889 edition of Dufresnes Schachmeisterpartien

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This site is a member of the Palamede group of chess sites.
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Last modified december 2002.