MODERNIST
CHESS
THREE STREAMS
ANCIENT, MEDIEVALIST & RENNAISANCE
Chess history and its relationship to Cupid, Amor, Eros and Venus and the various religions and philosophies associated such as Platonism, Christianity and Krishna Vaishnavism/Vedanta.
MODERNIST
Chess and surrealism and oulipo and the checkered pattern in abstract Modernist art, in pop art and culture.
CONTEMPORARY
Drawing on these past and recent histories, of the ancient, medieval and renaissance and the modernist and envisioning new uses for chess in the world of the internet of things in days where chess insights are used for business and AI.
“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shape thoughts; and these thoughts although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty, abstractly, like a poem." "Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general." "While not all artists are chess players all chess players are artists.” MARCEL DUCHAMP
BROAD CHURCH DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST LEFT
Chess has been used by capitalists and communists for their business and political insights. Today various business interests in Liberal Democracy use chess insights and there is a growing literature on chess and business in need of mapping out and lodging within the best progressive political contexts- which is in keeping with the ancient position of Eros in regards to ancient Democracy.
