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Are you addicted to chess?

Are you addicted to chess?

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Well-known artist Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968, who painted the famous painting, Nude Descending a Staircase, took up chess after WWI. He was so taken by the game that he essentially gave up his art even thouigh he was a founding father of the Dada movement. After he married, he spent the entire first week of his marriage studying chess. His bride therefore glued the chess pieces to the chessboard out of frustration. They divorced three months later.
Does that sound familiar to anyone?

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Originally posted by AttilaTheHorn
Well-known artist Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968, who painted the famous painting, Nude Descending a Staircase, took up chess after WWI. He was so taken by the game that he essentially gave up his art even thouigh he was a founding father of the Dada movement. After he married, he spent the entire first week of his marriage studying chess. His bride therefo ...[text shortened]... board out of frustration. They divorced three months later.
Does that sound familiar to anyone?
No.

But i would never be bored of it.

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Originally posted by AttilaTheHorn
Well-known artist Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968, who painted the famous painting, Nude Descending a Staircase, took up chess after WWI. He was so taken by the game that he essentially gave up his art even thouigh he was a founding father of the Dada movement. After he married, he spent the entire first week of his marriage studying chess. His bride therefo ...[text shortened]... board out of frustration. They divorced three months later.
Does that sound familiar to anyone?
yes, but not this bad (yet)

did you read the immortal game?

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Yes, excellent book.

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Originally posted by AttilaTheHorn
Yes, excellent book.
same here, i own it.. very fun trivia.. thats where you saw that right? dont know many other places that have those stories other than in that book.. 🙂

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No, actually I got it out of "This Crazy World of Chess" by Larry Evans.

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Originally posted by AttilaTheHorn
Well-known artist Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968, who painted the famous painting, Nude Descending a Staircase, took up chess after WWI. He was so taken by the game that he essentially gave up his art even thouigh he was a founding father of the Dada movement. After he married, he spent the entire first week of his marriage studying chess. His bride therefo ...[text shortened]... board out of frustration. They divorced three months later.
Does that sound familiar to anyone?
it actually sounds familiar to my girlfriend 😀😀😀