More details about the project ( part 1 )
The purpose of this " multi-way " and an interactive project - to show the world of chess through diverse substantive number of works of art, to present literary works in which the philosophy and the magic of chess action is the starting point for a variety of poetic images and story songs. Exhibition is accompanied by a series of lectures and meetings with outstanding chess players , simultaneous games .
The Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts real chess competitions held surrounded by genuine masterpieces of decorative art XVIII-XX centuries. Decoration of the exhibition will be unique exhibits from the collection VMDPNI : ivory chess "Peoples of the Caucasus ", exhibited at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris in which jewelry carving combined with precise detail reproduction costumes and imagery and poetic characteristics of the characters, as well as famous porcelain chess Natalia Danko " Red and white ", produced in 1925 at the State Porcelain factory in Leningrad , where the main figure in the "red" , the king - is working with a hammer , while the " white" - the death knight with a sword . In addition , visitors to the exhibition will see wooden kits from Vyatka (exhibits the Paris World Exhibition in 1925 ) , in which workers are opposed " bourgeois "; ivory chess Uelen 1920 Vukvola wizard with figures of animals of the Far North. Will also feature a gift Chinese chess second half of the twentieth century. , In the technique of multi-color cloisonne collection of the State Museum of Contemporary History of Russia , unique to execute Indian, Chinese , Tuvan pieces and boards from the Oriental Museum , memorial exhibits from the collection of the Central House of chess named M m. Botvinnik , including a table that held the longest match for the chess crown between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov ( 1984-85 . ) .
Visitor interest , surely, will cardboard chess - cubes pasted images of figures since the siege of Leningrad ; chess wire made in the gulag , "marine chess " - wooden figures with a special weighting belonging to Admiral Nakhimov , "space" chess set made specifically for the conditions games in zero gravity. In 1970, this set went on board the ship " Soyuz-9 ": that's when the match took place on the legendary "Space -to-Earth " between the crew of the spaceship " Soyuz- 9" and the Mission Control Center .
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