Chess Match (6)

By: Joshua Glenn
January 8, 2010

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“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem… I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”

— Marcel Duchamp (shown here sitting in front of a chess set designed by Max Ernst)

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Sixth in an occasional series.

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