find the mistake...

... in the image:

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/foto-panne-steinbrueck-und-schmidt-spielen-falsch-1.1174140

category: things which shouldn't happen to a possible chancellor candidate (left), nor a retired chancellor (right)...

Originally posted by tharkesh
... in the image:

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/foto-panne-steinbrueck-und-schmidt-spielen-falsch-1.1174140

category: things which shouldn't happen to a possible chancellor candidate (left), nor a retired chancellor (right)...

board is around the wrong way, whites h1 square should be white, not black.

exactly. it made it to german news today - what a skandal, this picture deceiving us, they play for real...

the photographer also didnt notice, at the end, she asks, how it is supposed to be placed correctly. she is willing to learn!

edit: robbie, you win the prize!

Jeez. The answer was mentioned in the article. Not a very difficult puzzle. I suggest to retract the prize.

Originally posted by Kegge
Jeez. The answer was mentioned in the article. Not a very difficult puzzle. I suggest to retract the prize.

Not very difficult if you speak the language! Spotted it straight away anyway. 😛

All he would have to do is flip the photo. Photographers do that all the time.

Originally posted by tharkesh
... in the image:

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/foto-panne-steinbrueck-und-schmidt-spielen-falsch-1.1174140

category: things which shouldn't happen to a possible chancellor candidate (left), nor a retired chancellor (right)...

They're either:
Passing a joint
Holding hands
Fighting over a piece

Originally posted by Kegge
Jeez. The answer was mentioned in the article. Not a very difficult puzzle. I suggest to retract the prize.

no way, i gotta win something sometime!

Originally posted by tharkesh
exactly. it made it to german news today - what a skandal, this picture deceiving us, they play for real...

the photographer also didnt notice, at the end, she asks, how it is supposed to be placed correctly. she is willing to learn!

edit: robbie, you win the prize!

perhaps they were playing but they failed to notice, sometimes when i am playing with
board and pieces i cannot be bothered flipping it round so i play with reversed colours,
therefore the picture would have been ok, if black had moved first.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
no way, i gotta win something sometime!

yeah, but it's the same for me😞

Originally posted by dzirilli
All he would have to do is flip the photo. Photographers do that all the time.

That is what I thought had happened then I noticed a watch on Willy Brandt's
left hand so if the photo had been accidently flipped that would be Willy's right
hand making him left handed.

So I went looking to see if Willy was left-handed but soon found a
picture of him playing a banjo right handed.
(of coure that picture too could have been flipped.)

It is amazing how often in works of art, films and where advertsing agencies
use a chess set the board is placed the wrong way around.

Woody Allen:

"I failed to make the chess team because of my height."

Has him playing chess in 'What’s New Pussy Cat.' the board is round
the wrong way. Woody (actually quite a good chess player) explains he did
that on purpose so that real chess players would notice.

Originally posted by greenpawn34
Woody (actually quite a good chess player) explains he did
that on purpose so that real chess players would notice.

that sounds like a one move blunder, that is later declared to be a 'sac'.