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Some authors invented new chess variants in their works, such as stealth chess in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series or Tri-Dimensional chess in the Star Trek series. Another connection between art and chess is the life of Marcel Duchamp , who almost fully suspended his artistic career to focus on chess in 1923. [ 14 ]
360° panorama. Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (better known as The Peacock Room [1]) is a work of interior decorative art created by James McNeill Whistler and Thomas Jeckyll, translocated to the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Whistler painted the paneled room in a unified palette of blue-greens with over-glazing and metallic gold leaf.
A wall hanging craft is a decoration, an amulet, a religious or a symbolic object that is hung from the ceiling or another structure. The sculptor Alexander Calder invented the mobiles, popular in the nursery, to give infants something to entertain them and give them external visual stimulation. [ 1 ]
Images related to the game of chess. To represent chess game positions, consider using Template:Chess diagram. Subcategories. This category has only the following ...
The World Chess Hall of Fame (WCHOF) is a nonprofit collecting institution in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, United States.Founded in 1984, it features chess exhibits, engages in educational outreach, and maintains a list of inductees to the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame and World Chess Hall of Fame.
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NBC made streaming history Saturday night. The Kansas City Chiefs’ 26-7 win over the Miami Dolphins in their wild-card matchup at Arrowhead Stadium was the most streamed live event in U.S. history.
Human chess is a theme in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1871). [ 4 ] The E.R. Burroughs pulp novel The Chessmen of Mars depicts an ordeal called Jetan , which is a Martian variant of chess in which the pieces are all human captives, and captures in the game are replaced by fights to the death between them.