Today’s Winning Chess Film
Vincent
Chess champion Vincent Temphis ( ‘Walking Dead‘ actor Anthony Lam) is about to face psychopath challenger Mikael Wexler (Jason Reynolds) for … Read the rest
Category: video
Cute commercial with chess
Today’s winning commercial
A nice, intelligent use of the game to emphasize the spirit of competitiveness of the young engineers involved in the car development. … Read the rest
Steve Cutts: reflections on the general insanity of mankind
“The General Insanity of Mankind is
an Almost Endless Pot of Inspiration.”
–Steve Cutts
Steve Cutts is inspired by the contradiction between modern society’s successes… Read the rest
Psychopathy in Tbilisi
The Bermudas Affair
How to explain irrational behaviour? The current FIDE Dress Code specifically (Reg.5) prohibits the clothing that World Cup organizer Azmaiparashvili … Read the rest
La Defensa del Dragon (The Dragon Defense)
La Defensa del Dragon
Today, July 27, La Defensa del Dragon premieres in Colombia. After successful showings in various festivals this year, including Cannes and … Read the rest
Chess and Video
Today’s Chess in Video
Edgar Kyeba, an independent film director based in Sheffield, England teams up with Wendy Zhong, James Simms and Nic … Read the rest
Chess Video
Chess Video
I like this! Cute. Subtle. JEPbyJEP is an artistic collective that focuses on emotional self-expression through two specific mediums, film and fabric. You … Read the rest
Armands Grundmanis’ Art
The Art of Armands Grundmanis
Armands Grundmanis (born 1993) is a renown Latvian fine art photographer specializing in black and white nudes. In Grundmanis’ case, … Read the rest
A Chess Dispute revisited.
Chess in Cinema
At first sight Robert W. Paul (1869-1943) seems like an improbable candidate to have become one of cinema’s greatest pioneers, but it … Read the rest
The making of ‘El jugador de Ajedrez’
The making of the chess film
Following up on Monday’s blog entry on Luis Oliveros’ ‘El jugador de Ajedrez’, today I present some YouTube material … Read the rest
‘El jugador de Ajedrez’ (Luis Oliveros)
‘El jugador de Ajedrez’
Luis film is all about passion. About a profound passion for the game of chess and an equally desperate passion between … Read the rest
Chess in cinema, commercials, etc
Recent entries
Some recent examples of the use of chess in videos. A theme that I like to explore on this blog. Today we will … Read the rest
Today’s chess art…
Casting God for ‘ A Game of Chess’
Johana Munzarova was born in Prague in 1962 and is a popular actress. You can visit her
… Read the restThe naughty world of ASMR
WANTED: Saucy, risqué, and spicy !
If Jessica Rabbit immediately came to your mind, then good choice, but… you would be looking in the wrong
… Read the restToday’s chess video…
From the era of the silent film !
‘The Double-Incarnation of William Sheep’ (1913)
