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Articles written by staff and users (English and Spanish)Through the Mirror of Chess: A Cultural Exploration (Ideas Roadshow)
AVAILABLE NOW: A captivating 4-part docuseries examining the remarkable impact of chess on culture, art, science, and sport. These films take the viewer on an exhilarating journey across a wide range of times and places touching on cultural history, the nature of...
read moreHistory of Mehen, by Jason McKee
History of Mehen Mehen was an ancient Egyptian board game from the predynastic period of Egypt (over 5,000 years ago!). Though its origins have been clouded in the ever-thickening fog of history, scholars and archeologists believe the game emerged sometime...
read moreDuchamp Versus Einstein
“A luminous game of chess between art and science that is played across the page with lethal precision.” John W. Campbell Award-winning Lavie Tidhar Duchamp versus Einstein is a science fiction novelette spanning some of the most monumental events of the 20th...
read moreAbalone, by Vincent Frochot
Abalone is a very elegant french game from the 90's, invented by Laurent Lévi and Michel Lalet. Your 14 marbles have to push 6 opponent marbles out of the hexagonal board. The game conveys the value "together we are stronger" - you need to have more marbles aligned to...
read moreAn Exploration of Music, Ballet and Chess
Jason Kouchak is a classical pianist, composer and choreographer based in London and Paris. Music is his first love and he has always had an affinity for chess, a sense of harmony and the similarities between music, ballet and chess. A combination to inspire and...
read moreHive phenomenon, more alive than ever!
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read moreThe MusiChess Encyclopedia exceeds 250 profiles
During 2019, the Encyclopedia MusiChess has published more than 250 musicians and chess players profiles. That's why we want to make a brief summary about the strengths of the work done. The new Encyclopedia MusiChess was created at the end of 2017 like a cultural...
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One of the concepts I like about Hive is that capture does not exist. Once a tile is placed on the field, it remains in play until the end of the game. The equivalent of the capture in Hive, if we can call it so, is the pin. Taking advAntage of the One Hive rule, a...
read moreDevin Townsend (Canada): Empath (2019)
The MusiChess member ChessBoardBerserker recommends... Empath, from Devin Townsend (Canada). We have bought the album. What are you waiting for? It's a...
read moreMusiChess: Music, Dance & Mind Sports
MusiChess. Music, Dance & Mind Sports Mind Sports Dance Music &...
read more22nd Mind Sports Olympiad, 19-27th August 2018
The 2018 Mind Sports Olympiad will take place in London from August 19 to 27 and features over 80 different competitions ranging from classics like Chess, Backgammon, and Scrabble to Eurogames including Carcassone, Agricola, Dominion, Catan (Standard and...
read moreMusic and Chess: Apollo Meets Caissa, by Achilleas Zographos
A Most Fascinating Journey! It has long been recognized that there are only three major areas of human endeavor which produce prodigies: music, chess and mathematics. This does not occur by happenstance. There are links on many levels. Now, for the first time, Music...
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6. Chess in music; music in chess
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8. Bibliography
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