Chess and culture

Today, I am not posting another of my patzer games commented but I am posting some interesting chess links.

First, a link to the very nice chess diary of Tim Krabbe. I really enjoy reading parts of it and one can really feel that Tim has writing skills (he is by the way book author). That's the link to the beginning of his diary.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/diary_1.htm

And that's a link to all his web content :

http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess/chess.html


Now after you've read all of Tim's interesting material ;-) , you might find time to review these very interesting chess pages. The french speaking author of these pages has mixed a selection of chess problems with classic paintings. You will find paintings from Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Da Vinci, Dürer...as well as some modern art paintings and pictures of Kandinsky, Edmaier, Grunewald....I really like the idea and the spirit behind this webpage. I think the site would become even greater if he would add a piece of classical music to each theme. Beware that for every author of chess problems there are many chess puzzles (you need to click on the name of the theme being displayed and a scrolling menu will appear). And every puzzle has a painting or picture associated to it.

http://www.jmrw.com/Chess/Chess_Curiosities1.htm

Enjoy reading and watching.