Duchamp April 15, 2009
Posted by Jennifer in : Uncategorized , trackbackOn this page, I will add information related to, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess by Francis M.Naumann and Bradley Bailey, with annotations by me! You can purchase the book here. For the book, I analyzed 15 Duchamp games including: a draw against Tartokower, a win against the great Koltinowski and a draw against Vera Menchik, the first Women’s World Champion, who I profiled in Chess Bitch. You can read more about my initial thoughts on the book and Marcel’s play in an earlier blog on jennifershahade.com and a uschess.org blog. Also check out the video below which I created with Dim Mak Films.The video was inspired by this famous photo of Duchamp playing chess against a naked woman.
If you purchased the book and want to access the animated games by Sabrier, click here, (Username=Chess, Password: ISBN Number for Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess.) For more information about the book go to Francisnaumann.com.
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wow so interesting
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ohhhh. I will sooo be buying this book.
You can buy the book at this link: http://artofchess.org/The-Art-of-Chess
Jennifer,
I have viewed the Marcel DuChamp derived video, but am a bit perturbed at your focus on Marcel’s chess… He as has been attributed to him was more interested in investigating the chess world as an artist, which is a long way from investigating the world as a chess master… I advocate the use of Rose Shearer’s Tout Fait website….
Sal DiGiacomo
Duchamp’s main contribution to chess may have been his chess-related artworks and ideas, but I can tell you from deep analysis of his games, that it took A LOT of blood, sweat and tears to get as good at chess as he was. And he wanted to get even better. So I think it’s appropriate to analyze his games!