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Three gentlemen playing chess in a tavern

Three gentlemen playing chess in a tavern

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I've just bought a painting that appears to be a copy of this one:
http://www.thenewyearsdaysale.co.uk/german-oil-on-canvas-of-three-gentleman-playing-chess-in-tavern-signed-buttner/

My picture is slightly less wide and has been painted on board rather than canvas. It's also signed by a completely different person. I intend to hang it on the wall of my office as soon as I get round to it.

Anyway, what I want to know is - what is that weird green ball above the fire?

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I see 2 different versions with the same title. 😕

http://www.thenewyearsdaysale.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/German-Oil-on-Canvas-of-Three-Gentleman-Playing-Chess-in-Tavern-Signed-B%C3%BCttner.jpg

http://www.thenewyearsdaysale.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/lexy1.jpg

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Originally posted by Data Fly
Anyway, what I want to know is - what is that weird green ball above the fire?
Looks like a rather large and anachronistic piece of Kryptonite.
(Kryptonite didn't reach the Earth until the 1930s)

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Originally posted by ChessPraxis
I see 2 different versions with the same title. 😕

http://www.thenewyearsdaysale.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/German-Oil-on-Canvas-of-Three-Gentleman-Playing-Chess-in-Tavern-Signed-B%C3%BCttner.jpg

http://www.thenewyearsdaysale.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/lexy1.jpg
The second picture you listed has got a different title:
http://www.thenewyearsdaysale.co.uk/german-oil-on-canvas-of-gentleman-in-tavern-signed-lexy/

Here is my copy of the "Three Gentlemen...":
http://s19.photobucket.com/user/gallicrow/media/chess/Three_Gentlemen.jpg.html

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That green blob is the top my head - a big greenpawn.
I appear somewhere in all famous paintings.

Can you make out the position on the board.

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
That green blob is the top my head - a big greenpawn.
I appear somewhere in all famous paintings.

Can you make out the position on the board.
e4

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
That green blob is the top my head - a big greenpawn.
I appear somewhere in all famous paintings.

Can you make out the position on the board.
White has two bishops on light squares and a1 is a white square.

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Originally posted by Data Fly
I've just bought a painting that appears to be a copy of this one:
http://www.thenewyearsdaysale.co.uk/german-oil-on-canvas-of-three-gentleman-playing-chess-in-tavern-signed-buttner/

My picture is slightly less wide and has been painted on board rather than canvas. It's also signed by a completely different person. I intend to hang it on the wall of my ...[text shortened]... t round to it.

Anyway, what I want to know is - what is that weird green ball above the fire?
They could be extremely small people and the ball is a golf ball, they have those dimples....

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Originally posted by Data Fly
I've just bought a painting that appears to be a copy of this one:
http://www.thenewyearsdaysale.co.uk/german-oil-on-canvas-of-three-gentleman-playing-chess-in-tavern-signed-buttner/

My picture is slightly less wide and has been painted on board rather than canvas. It's also signed by a completely different person. I intend to hang it on the wall of my ...[text shortened]... t round to it.

Anyway, what I want to know is - what is that weird green ball above the fire?
It's a green bowling ball for a giant with many many fingers.

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The picture is very old...it's mould.

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I get the feeling that not everyone is treating this with the gravitas it merits.

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I can't imagine what would have happened had it been a painting with the title "Nude ladies playing chess...".

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Originally posted by vandervelde
I can't imagine what would have happened had it been a painting with the title "Nude ladies playing chess...".
It's why I am a positional player.

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Originally posted by Paul Leggett
It's why I am a positional player.
So you discovered a new position?

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Originally posted by sonhouse
So you discovered a new position?
Spread-eagled across a giant green golf-ball.

God only knows where he got the idea from ........................