In my international survey, 53.7% of displayed chess sets (in store fronts, etc.) are not properly set up. The mnemonic device is “white on the right (bottom right square to each player) AND queen on her own color (black queen on black square).” This needs to tighten up, worldwide.In Paris, they got the queens right but blew the corners, plus the knights and bishops are reversed.At Harrods in London, where they also drive on the wrong side of the road.But this one looks so nice!Marcel Duchamp once again wonderfully muddies the waters.Man Ray renders the discussion moot.Yoko Ono’s set says white always wins….
Much of my career in radiology has been spent studying, with great fascination, the internal mechanisms of the human body. This blog is an effort to expand that view to the outside world and also to map my own experiences engaging with it.
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