Today’s ‘bloody’ chess video!
How many people can die during a chess game?

How many people can die during a chess game?
I love this! There are few chess related commercials that treat the subject of strip-chess as tastefully as this Honda commercial. Although a few years … Read the rest
Recent chess-themed videos
Vimeo is one of my favourite platforms for all types of videos, including educational ones, and I frequently embed some of these … Read the rest
Another Cute Chess Video
A short documentary of young coloured girls
playing chess competitively
There can never be too many films about girls playing chess, but it is true … Read the rest
Vincent
Chess champion Vincent Temphis ( ‘Walking Dead‘ actor Anthony Lam) is about to face psychopath challenger Mikael Wexler (Jason Reynolds) for … Read the rest
Today’s winning commercial
“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
The Bermudas Affair
How to explain irrational behaviour? The current FIDE Dress Code specifically (Reg.5) prohibits the clothing that World Cup organizer Azmaiparashvili was wearing … Read the rest
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
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
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
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
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 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