Chess, potpourri and other nonsense!
A PIC IS WORTH A 1,000 WORDS
Street chess. Chicago. 2011. ‘Touch and Go’ has a nice ring to it! Link But could be any city in the world.
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Konrad Schmidt. Photographer. ”I think one of the biggest problems of the world today is that this way of inventing something is: There is an old person who knows how to do something and a young one, that learns how it’s done. It has been like this for the last thousands of years. But since the Internet revolution, it’s completely the other way around. Very young folks can learn things so fast in such a short amount of time and then they can easily be better than someone old. And the generation before mine is now learning from us… Just look at all this iPhone stuff… A six year old can handle that! It’s still hard when you are young in photography. Because like architecture, no one is a real star under 50 years old or so. Actually it’s a pity because all the years before are gone…”
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Camel (1)—Man (0)
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THE TORMENT OF BEING WORLD CHAMPION
(A silent short film on the toils of being champion)
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I hate spiders, too.
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HOW TO MAKE CHESS MORE POPULAR
Organizers and chess players take note: there is something to be learned here! Perhaps we should make chess more…dangerous!
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HE WHO LAUGHS FIRST…
