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The Parrot's Rare Chess Photo Collection Album 4 These images and text first
appeared in The Parrot's column's Also enjoy: Album #1 & Album #2 & Album 3
Readers are invited to contribute their own rare chess photos
If you didn’t catch it already, my Chessville colleague Jan Newton found this picture last week in her column Les Echecs des Femmes:
What I have done this week is try to investigate what goes on with the women’s game by way of asking questions of the US Woman’s Championship. I also had correspondence with the top Englishwoman Cathy Forbes. I hope the result will be something that enhances these young Canadian player’s future careers – even though progressing with those who rule over the rules, the “Monkey’s Helluva Rules”, is hard work! To progress chess for future female players of it, the current generation of women are identifying certain aspects of their still and evidently 2nd class status in chess. But at least they are raising these issues and not hiding them away. Cathy remarked that the women’s game will certainly benefit from the support of their ‘brothers’ in chess. So… after an appalling week of miasmic responses from chess officialdom, this writer certainly has sympathy for the somewhat neglected 2nd class citizens in chess. To finish the week on another note entirely, just take a look at the picture, and do you see already that developed serious attention, that determination, and just plain sass of the future strong player? Captioned are Canada’s Ten-year old Jackie Peng and seven-year old Janet Peng, who JanXena reports, will both be playing in the Canadian National Youth Championships in Quebec City, Quebec (Canada) July 14 - 17, 2008. Winners from this Championship will compete for Canada in the World Youth Championships to be held in Vietnam in October. You go girls!
A few samples are ‘Scandinavian Opening” Painting by Karin Miedema, 29 x 47 cm, Acrylic on masonite. Someone should snap up the rights to that one for a book cover.
The Dutch company also sell chess sets, including one I played on last year – and here it is! It was so hard to actually identify which Simpson character represented any chess piece, that only a pattern recognition of where they were on the board provided me enough clues – for example, the character on f3 is probably a knight? Right? Not recommended for Blitz.
After that scene of unrelieved gloom, here is a pretty picture!
The Association of Chess Professionals (ACP) happily sign a cooperative agreement with the Turkish Chess Federation. (TCF) It’s a happy picture not just because of their intended work together, which they describe like this:
But because Turkey has invested huge amounts of government money into its school system for the pursuit of chess and academics, and by all accounts, government is happy with the results. It is a picture of success among at least 4 parties: Government, Chess Federation, Professional Player’s Organization, and of course, We, the Chess Players!
I know I presented a picture of the great Piatigorsky Cup a month ago, but I never saw this image before. Care to identify those present? Answers: Players names are, from left to right:- Najdorf, Fischer, Portisch, Larsen, Ivkov, Unzicker.
Source: http://www.chess-shop.com/detail.aspx?ID=427
One of the rarest pictures of all time!
To the left we have a very eminent Astrophysicist indeed, next, an unnamed man in a t-shirt without a tie, then Grandmaster Susan Polgar, then Chessville’s Senior Editor Kelly Atkins. Why, you may properly ask, is this a rare picture? Because the unnamed person-without-a-tie has probably taken more pictures of chess players than any other human being, ever. And since this section of the Parrot features rare-chess pictures, perhaps in a 1000 years, future editorial writers of this column, re-titled “The Galactic Parrot” will wonder who he is, and since his evident Asian origin, it can’t be from Tie-land. That’s a poor joke, but its short.
Caption: Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) Study for chess players (1911)
No, its not Da Vinci,
Manuscrit du
roman Guiron le Courtois de Rusticien de Pise Illustration courtesy: http://www.jmrw.com/Chess/Tableau_echecs/index.htm
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"Your Move" at the Chess Collector's International Biennial
Auction
This will be the first major chess set auction in the United States since the last CCI Convention in the U.S. in Philadelphia in 2002. This Convention and auction will be will be held in conjunction with U.S. Seniors Open Chess Tournament to be held in Boca Raton. The sale will consist of over 140 lots of antique and modern chess sets and related items consigned by members of CCI and members of the public. Consignment is open to the public as is the auction. The inventory will include lots like an 18th century Burmese carved figural set, an English 19th century turned ivory set , a 19th century English bone traveling set and an elaborate 18th/19th century French/German Dieppe style carved bone figural set with leather hats. Also included will be a Russian carved mammoth ivory “Knights” figural chess set by Russian sculptor Oleg Raikis, a J. Jaques boxwood and ebony tournament play set from Frank Marshall, U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, an exotic Egyptian carved ivory “Pharaoh” figural set, a rare Dominican carved amber “Medieval” figural set, a German 19th century wood, plaster and lead “medieval” figural set and a 19th/20th century Chinese export carved ivory figural set. The sale will be carried live online by LiveAuctioneers.com and Auction owner Brian Kogan says this may turn out to be one of the largest online chess related sales in history. Extra phone lines will be installed and absentee bids are welcomed. Preview for the sale will be April 29 – May 1 at the Gallery located at 1609 South Dixie Hwy, Suite 5, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. A catalog with approximately forty illustrations will be available. For more information about this sale call (561) 805-7115, email info@agopb.com or visit the website at http://www.agopb.com/. Written by: Fred Taylor
Out of the (Blue) Bag After last week’s April fool’s ‘episode’ in collusion with Paul Truong and Susan Polgar, I hesitate to report something he told me some time ago – but its true! He said that Susan Polgar had also played Deep Blue. “But you can’t talk about it,” he said.
Anyway, I asked after her results, and he laughed and said ‘quite good.’ I see that the Susan Polgar Blogspot has now mentioned some of the facts, therefore, so can I, and here is the proof. Looks like she is exercising her favorite Colle-Zukertort. Perhaps one day we will learn the result of the games and even see the game scores? I wonder if she did better than Garry?
Stephan spent his first 53 years in rural Massachusetts where he ran nine marathons, wrote five books, and became a Correspondence Chess Master. He played in five USCF Absolute Championships and one USCCC. He has ranked as high as #10 on the USCF Top-50 List. He has been president of both the Massachusetts and the New England Chess Associations. While in Massachusetts he inspected snow storms and rain storms and otherwise emulated Henry David Thoreau. In 1998, Stephan relocated to Princeton, NJ. There he taught chess as part of the regular curriculum in a small elementary school, his students winning numerous New Jersey Scholastic Championships. "Mr. G" left Princeton after three schools years there. Since then he has lived and taught in New York, Florida, Tennessee and Texas. He has been a tournament director at The Denker Tournament of High School Champions, The U. S. Blind Championship, the Tennessee Open Championship, and the Final Four of College Chess.
Given all the hoo-hah in mainstream press about the DaVinci [?] materials, here are the two pages:
Second Piatigorsky Cup - 1966 Boris Spassky held off a late charge from Bobby Fischer to win the 2nd Piatigorsky Cup in Santa Monica, California. The event took place in the Starlight Ballroom of the Miramar Hotel from July 17th to August 15th, 1966. The prize money was twice that of the inaugural tournament and the number of participants was increased from eight to ten, with the same double round-robin format of play. The $20,000 purse was enough to lure Fischer to the tournament, as he had previously chosen not to participate in the 1st Piatigorsky Cup in 1963.
Caption from left to right, Boris Spassky, Mr. and Mrs. Piatigorsky, Bobby Fischer. These images are from the chess site http://www.rookhouse.com/events/piat1966.html FINAL RESULTS
http://www.chessgraphics.net/index.htm
This week we feature some chess couples beginning with Tolstoy playing chess against an unknown opponent:
"¿Qué?" he replied. But that’s the beauty of chess; chess is a language of its own. These images are from useful chess site http://www.chessgraphics.net/index.htm.
Women in chess have come a long way, well…? The abysmal New York Times, February 14th, 2008, reports: Like most chess clubs, the one at Public School 29 is composed of nearly all boys. Marlene Hochman, the coach, wants to change that and in a most unusual way: with dolls. At a meeting Thursday, she unveiled what may be the world's first Barbie chess set. For the white pieces, Ms. Hochman, a doll collector and author of ''The Doll Hospital Directory,'' glued the heads of Barbie dolls onto the pawns and queen, and Ken onto the king. For the opposing pieces, she used Barbies with black wigs for the pawns and the doll's ''African-American friends,'' Steven and Shani, as king and queen. ''I believe with this Barbie set I can teach any girl how to play,'' said Ms. Hochman. Fortunately, no picture is available. Whether this favors the advancement of women in chess is an opinion best left to a woman!
In Pythonesque vein; now for something completely different!
II perdit en quart de finale des matchs des Candidats en 1971 contre Larsen a Las Palmas (+2, -4, -3).” The person in dark-glasses looking on is le Prince Rainier de Monaco.
Or even this one? What is Bobby saying to Fidel?
'« Caissa and Kids »' is born from the encounter between myself (Michel Bruneau the "Chess-Theory" Webmaster) and the talented French Artist Etienne LEROUX from Grenoble, Painter, Photographer and Designer. “We started the creation of this Comic Strip on June-July 2007 and this piece of work is now achieved, only since two or three days (exactly on Monday, January 28, 2008). Etienne is the author of near 70 fine pictures (constituting the Comic Strip strictly speaking) and I am myself the Script Author. The challenge was to write a rather substantial chess learning based on a 62-Pictures Comic Strip!. It's a priori near impossible. Also, I was obliged to reinforce the Dialogue Tutorial by adding a significant number of texts, tables and diagrams.”
My favorite chess site for pictures continues to be Tableaux ayant pour sujet les échecs. The picture of the week is from this site, as are both thumbnails in the Parrot’s diary. The caption for this modern painting, is:
Nicolas Sphicas
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After
a successful gallery exhibition 
“O!
Thank you very much!” I replied tartly.
Stephan
"Mr. G" Gerzadowicz
I
remember playing a few games of blitz down there in the winter of 1982
against a fellow from South America. We had been playing for perhaps
half an hour when I asked him if I could buy him a cup of coffee?
The
caption is of Queen Isabella of Spain in whose time the first female ‘queen’
appeared on the chessboard.
Here
is something ‘novel’. Follow
