#Lewis Chess

[thesilicontribesman]

The Lewis Chess Pieces, 12th Century CE, The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

[the-squeerrel]

why is it that the national museum of scotland can scan the lewis chessmen in 3d and publish it on sketchfab but the british museum has only regular photos like animals

[fotograrte]

El ajedrez de la isla de Lewis

La reina, pensativa. Es este ajedrez una pieza insólita de la que se sabe únicamente dónde fue encontrada (Escocia, de hecho, 11 piezas en el Museo Nacional de Escocia; el resto en el British Museum) pero del que se desconoce su origen para el que hay diversas teorías. El obispo con su báculo Pero comencemos por el principio: por describir este ajedrez: Las piezas de ajedrez de Lewis son un…

[l0vagrend]

CHECK-MATE

The Latest Chess-News featuring the 2024 Grid

— F1 2024 ZINE by l0vagrend ; 2024 december issue

[ will try my best to make it into a size A5 physical zine ]

[albustoo]

HELP, THE F1 TO CHESS PIPELINE IS REAL. AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO FUCKIN PLAY CHESS

[citroensap]

How (It's very sad to see) Sad (The ancient and) To (Distinguished game) See (That used to be) A model of decorum and tranquility Become like any other sport A battleground for rival ideologies To slug it out with glee

[cieuxgris]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

[smbhax]

John Tenniel - illustration for Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

[sainz100]

upcoming Carlos x chess content soon ❤️♟️✨

[tenth-sentence]

Eustace lost two games of chess to Reepicheep and began to get like his old and disagreeable self again, and Edmund said he wished they could have gone to America with Susan.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" - C. S. Lewis

[jurakan]

Post-holiday back-to-work blues are hitting me hard, do you have any facts that are extra fun?

Uh, so, most of my notes for Fun Facts I have notes for are not, uh... like, too lighthearted, so we're going to cover the Lewis Chessmen! Which admittedly come up sometimes in my chess tag, but it's fun so

TODAY YOU LEARNED ABOUT THE LEWIS CHESSMEN!

In 1831, on the Isle of Lewis off the coast of Scotland, the Lewis Chessmen were discovered! Along with other game pieces. There were a total of 78 chess pieces carved from walrus tusks and whale teeth, presumably to play lots of games.

Most of them are currently held in the British Museum, while 11 pieces are in the National Scottish Museum in Edinburgh. There is some dispute as to where they should be, as they are Scottish artifacts, but the British Museum is always loathe to, y'know, put stuff in the hands of the people who owned it originally. They have done a tour around Scotland, though, which is kind of nice.

That being said, they're Scandanavian in style, so they probably hearken back to the Danish/Norse occupation of Scotland. They're probably not pagan Norse, though, because as you may notice looking at pictures of them, there's a bishop.

Famously, they also have very funny faces.

Here is the Rook! Which is also a berserker:

Apparently, berserkers chew their shields sometimes, which is being depicted here.

The King and Queen also have funny looks:

Yeah, man, some days be like that.

If you play Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, the 'Bishop' pieces on the Alliance Map are modeled after these guys. Versions of the pieces are also in the expansion "Wrath of the Druids", though that's in Ireland, not Scotland (which isn't really in the game, other than the isle of Skye).

Check them out! If nothing else, I hope the faces help cheer you.

[thesilicontribesman]

The Lewis Chess Pieces, 12th Century CE, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh

[whats-in-a-sentence]

"Look," she said in a rather choking kind of voice.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" - C. S. Lewis

[its-sir-actually]

Winning the constructors means less wind tunnel time so I'm happy with Ferrari coming very close second and getting more time in the tunnel to hopefully build a better car for Lewis

[fission-mailure]

I mean, on the bright side, with the introduction of Time Fruits, the Fruits That Are Also Time, in the Ever After, RWBY does now have a way to reverse Jaune’s years of isolation. It’s not unreasonable to think that if there’s a fruit that reverses time for everything except the holder, then there’s also one that reverses time for the holder but not everyone else.

On the dim side, I’m pretty sure they won’t do that since the whole theme of this volume is ‘you cannot rid yourself of the bad things in your past, because they’re a part of who you are.’ Like -- Weiss can’t rid herself of Jacques, that’s a part of her; Blake can’t just get rid of her time in the White Fang and her feeling of being caught between two worlds, that’s a part of her; Ruby pawning off Summer’s emblem isn’t really a liberating moment of freeing herself from the shackles of the past, it’s presented as her carving off pieces of her identity.

And that’s ultimately the source of the conflict between the Cat and Jaune, right. To the Cat, it’s entirely reasonable that when the past catches up with you and you start to tire, that you just remove the baggage and refashion yourself into something new (even if, as he points out, your heart still remembers). To Jaune, that’s just dying, erasing who you were from the world.

So we’re still kind of in the position of ‘what happened to Jaune is irreversible’ because even if he does somehow magically get rewound, apart from being a betrayal of his own ethics, his experiences will still be there, engraved on him. Even the Cat admits that you can’t ever fully get rid of who you were. And we’re now seeing that actually, the damage to Jaune is worse than we previously thought. Because the Cat’s right, he’s not entirely sane anymore. His own story shows that: He willingly drank poison because he was terrified that he was somehow ruining Alyx’s story.

(Which also raises an interesting point for either Alyx or Lewis, whichever one of the siblings is the one who escaped. They wrote a story about their experiences, but cut out not just the bad parts, but an entire person, essentially trying to edit their own past, and now I’m even more sure that one of them is part of Salem’s inner circle. After all, Salem can sympathise with wanting to rewrite your past.)

[themoonofblueside]

Look i know merc is truly fucked with not even being able to overtake a struggling ferrari even with drs but i need toto to sell his soul to the devil so that we could have a battle with aston martin because i will literally die if i don't see lewis hamilton and fernando alonso battling out every race without being worried about one of them hitting the other