Chess Players: From Charlie Chaplin to Wu-Tang Clan

Dylan Loeb McClain, Damon Murray, Viswanathan Anand, Stephen Sorrell, Martin Amis

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An incredible collection of images of chess players from the last 130 years, showcasing the unique relationship between chess and culture, featuring world famous actors, artists, politicians and musicians.

You don’t have to play chess to appreciate Chess Players: from Charlie Chaplin to Wu-Tang Clan, but as Martin Amis asks in his illuminating essay: What are they playing at?’

These evocative photographs transcend the chessboard, spanning 130 years – from a steamship crossing the Atlantic in 1888, to the zero-gravity of space – showcasing the diverse range of individuals who have embraced the game across continents and eras.

Marcel Duchamp’s iconic quote, ‘All chess players are artists,' resonates through these pages. David Hockney likened the games strategic thinking to that of making art 'Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.'

'Chess is war over the board', said Bobby Fischer (grand master and world chess champion) – but here John Lennon and Yoko Ono checkmate this notion, with their all-white, chess ‘peace’ set.

Hollywood stars played chess on and off the screen – Humphrey Bogart deploys a Sicilian Defence against Lauren Bacall, while Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen plot their next gambit in the iconic chess seduction scene from 'The Thomas Crown Affair' (1968).

With an introduction by Dylan Loeb McClain, former chess columnist for The New York Times, the photographs in Chess Players help explain the enduring attraction of this cerebral game, from pawn to king, amateur to grandmaster.

The book has been compiled and edited by Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell who have been publishing critically acclaimed books on design and architecture since 2004. They also published Masterworks: Rare and Beautiful Chess Sets of the World (2016).

Introduction and image captions written by Dylan Loeb McClain, former chess columnist for The New York Times, FIDE master.

Essay by Martin Amis (1949-2023), novelist, essayist, memoirist and screenwriter. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience (2000) and was twice listed for the Booker Prize.

Viswanathan Anand is unarguably one of the greatest chess players in history. Five times winner of the classical world championship as well as the rapid and blitz world championships, he was ranked no. 1 in the world for 21 months, remaining among the world’s top-10 players for more than 30 years – an almost unmatched feat. These achievements have earned him some of India’s highest honours, including the Khel Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan awards. In a sports-mad nation of 1.4 billion people, he is among the country’s best-known figures.

Publisher
Fuel
ISBN
9781739887865
Binding
hardback
Weight (kg)
0.83
Height (in)
9.7
Width (in)
7.1
Published Date
05-09-2024

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