The famous Leonardo da Vinci was a chess player? Italian architect Franco Rocco claims ‘yes’ and to verify it an interesting exhibition is going on until 30th September in Milan, Italy (91 Monte Rosa Street, PwC Space). by Adolivio...
An amazing Da Vinci discovery
Sketches Found on Back of Da Vinci WorkReutersPARIS (Dec. 18) – A curator at the Louvre museum in Paris has stumbled upon some unknown drawings on the back of a painting by Leonardo da Vinci that look like they...
Historic images
This handout image provided on Friday, March 14, 2008 by the Coronini Cronberg Foundation shows drawings of chess puzzles in a chess treatise recently recovered in the library of an aristocratic family in Gorizia, northern Italy. The chess puzzle,...
Holy Grail of Chess
Experts link Leonardo da Vinci to chess puzzles in long-lost Renaissance treatiseThe Associated PressPublished: March 14, 2008 ROME: The chess puzzle, the mind-racking brain food now printed in many an upscale newspaper, may have had an early and accomplished...
The DaVinci Checkmate
White to move and checkmate in 9. Can you find it?k3nb2/7b/6Rr/3rq3/2K1B2N/6R1/3p1pPB/1Q1N2n1 w – – 0 1 You can find the answer here courtesy of James O’Fee. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
DaVinci chess mystery
March 10, 2008Renaissance chess master and the Da Vinci decode mystery Raymond KeeneChess Correspondent A masterpiece from the early literature of chess has recently resurfaced after being thought lost for five centuries. The rediscovery of this book is of...
Leonardo da Vinci, chess painter?
This is a self portrait of Leonardo da Vinci ‘Da Vinci link’ to chess drawingsBy Christian FraserBBC News, Rome Researchers believe early illustrations of how to play the game of chess, found in a long-lost Italian manuscript, may have...