Chess (#1219)

Marcel Duchamp was an international player and Henri Matisse did a portrait of his family kibitzing a chess game

Devangshu Datta  |  New Delhi  September 24, 2016 Last Updated at 00:01 IST

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Chess players have cause to complain about misrepresentation in pop culture. Common errors include the board being set up wrong in ads and movies, with either a black square on the right (h1, a8 are light squares) or queens and kings initially reversed (the queens sit black on black and white on white). But artists rarely get things wrong. This could be because artists paint real positions, or pay more attention to detail, or play. Marcel Duchamp was an international player and Henri Matisse did a portrait of his family kibitzing a chess game. Admittedly, chessboards are never set up ...

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Chess (#1219)