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Knight Moves to Remis: The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp

Knight Moves to Remis: The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp

Duchamp, Marcel
Honold, Astrid
Chatzidakis, Michail

Paperback

ChessIndividual Artists

Publisher Price: $49.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 13, 2026

ISBN10: 3775762272
ISBN13: 9783775762274
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Published: Oct 13 2026
Pages: 180
Language: English

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art--and much more. --Marcel Duchamp

Though the world knew him as the rule-breaking, gender-bending grandmaster of Dada, French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) considered himself a chess player above all else. He competed nationally and internationally, earned the rank of master, published treatises on strategy and even developed a problem that is still unsolved to this day. For Duchamp, the theory and practice of chess had a significant effect on his artistic practice. He saw the pieces as a kind of alphabet, and their movement around the chessboard created an endless array of poems. In Knight Moves to Remis, German art historian Astrid Honold and chess expert Michail Chatzidakis walk through the 315 surviving games that Duchamp is known to have played, providing art historical diagrams and position analysis throughout.

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