The game is so full of events, there is such a variety of turns in it, the fortune of it is so subject to sudden vicissitudes, and one so frequently, after long contemplation, discovers the means of extricating one's self from a supposed insurmountable difficulty, that one is encouraged to continue the contest to the last, in hopes of victory by our own skill, or, at least, of giving a stalemate, by the negligence of our adversary.
~Benjamin Franklin
For Art Thursday, chess knights. I grew up thinking of them as the horses, but I also like these pieces which include the rider:
The Lewis Chessmen, probably made in Norway, about AD 1150-1200
Found on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
photo by Rob Roy
Chess Figure, 12th to 16th century
photo by Andreas Praefcke
Chess piece, Netherlandish
1 comment:
The knight has all kinds of possibilities as to how it is portrayed. I like the ones with the riders, too. Though I have seen some "horses" done quite elaborately.
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