Duchamp
On this page, I will add information related to, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess by Francis M.Naumann and Bradley Bailey, with annotations by me! You can purchase the book here. For the book, I analyzed 15 Duchamp games including: a draw against Tartokower, a win against the great Koltinowski and a draw against Vera Menchik, the first Women’s World Champion, who I profiled in Chess Bitch. Read the behind the scenes story about the video below, which I created with Dim Mak Films.The concept was inspired by this famous photo of Duchamp playing chess against a naked woman.
My work on the book inspired the plot of hulachess. The moves from hulachess are based on a Duchamp game against the Romanian master Davidescu. Although Duchamp lost that game, an improvement in a key variation would have led to the perpetual check portrayed in the video.
Hulachess excerpt from DIM mak films on Vimeo.
If you purchased the book and want to access the animated games by Sabrier, click here, (Username=Chess, Password: ISBN Number for Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess.) For more information about the book go to Francisnaumann.com.
