Boxing is like chess just with fists.

WBC Heavyweight champion Vitaly Klitschko playing chess with chess world champion Vladimir Kramnik before his title defense against Manuel Charr.

Machado de Assis

" Well, I love chess. Good Lord, it's such a delicious game! ...
The Queen eats the Pawn, 
the Pawn eats the Bishop, 
the Bishop eats the Knight, 
the Knight eats the Queen ... everybody eats everybody else. 
It's a very charming type of anarchy..."   


by Machado de Assis

Chess Grand Master Bobby Fischer & Time Life Lobby Chair

Chess grand master Bobby Fischer specifically requested the Time Life Lobby Chairdesigned by Charles and Ray Eames while he competed in the World Chess Championship in Reykjavik In 1972. He said he could concentrate well in the chair. When his opponent Boris Spaasky saw it, he refused to play until he got one too. Vitra has produced a short video on this historical event. (clik here ).

Clerkenwell Close

13 October 2010 

Chess Club Meeting

One Afternoon,

A Jukebox Tune,

Three Kings,

Some other things,

Two Boards,

Few random words,

Some games to be played,

Brazilian maid,

Not a big deal,

Free humus meal,

Clerkenwell close I suppose. 

Architectural Record June 2010

Media Lab Complex, Cambridge , Massachusetts
Architect - Maki and Associates

Fisher Street Closed

The Thomas Crown Affair 1968

Possibly one of the best boy/girl scenes in film history. 
Everything is just wonderfully crafted: editing, use of 
music, unusual camera angles, great acting with lots of sexual innuendos, simply brilliant. 

 

 

You play?

Try me.

Check.

Let's play something else.