September 2009
12 posts
press coverage of 2009 game
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NY Times “Bits” blog
Time Out New York
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HUMAN SCALE CHESS
If you are interested in participating or observing,
meet at 2p SHARP - Saturday Sept 19 2009
Meet at NYU Barney Building, 34 Stuyvesant Street. directions are here
Grandmaster playing in our master game →
We’re ridiculously thrilled that Canadian Grandmaster Pascal Charbonneau will be playing the master game in our chess game on Saturday. That means that is will be his brilliant moves that are transmitted to people representing chess pieces out in the neighborhood. Welcome, Pascal!
Pascal will be playing Dmitri Shneider, who is an international master and was one of the most talented juniors...
Which chess piece should you be?
You don’t need to know how to play chess to participate in the 2009 Human Scale Chess Game. Probably the most diverting way to participate is by representing a piece in the game. How will this work? Let’s pretend you are the white b-pawn (that’s the pawn in front of the knight).
We’re going to divide the Village/NYU area into an 8 x 8 block game board. Each intersection...
Cool chess terminology you can use to sound...
zugzwang - German for “compulsory step”. A position where a player is forced to make a concession by making ANY move (they would prefer to “pass” which is not legal in chess).
fianchetto - An opening pattern where the flanking bishop is hidden in a little pyramid of pawns, useful for attacking opponent’s diagonally opposing flank.
hypermodern - A chess theory which...
Conflux Festival 2009 →
The Human Scale Chess Game is a part of Conflux Festival 2009, a weekend-long exploration of psychogeography.
Follow us on Twitter →
The twitter feed will update with news and events, and will carry the actual moves of the game on Game Day!
Human Scale Chess on Facebook →
The Game is afoot! We will be playing as a part of the 2009 Conflux at 2p on Sept 19.
We’re looking for people to 1) volunteer to be chess pieces for a Saturday afternoon, or 2) help with documentation and logistics, or 3) cheer us on via the internet!
Sign up on the facebook page or email the organizer at sharilyn {dot} neidhardt {at} gmail {dot} com
August 2009
2 posts
Welcome!
Hello there, friends. This space will evolve to host the Tenth Human Scale Chess Game, which will be a part of Conflux 2009. The game will be staged in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York in mid-September.
Volunteer to be a part of the game by emailing Sharilyn: sharilyn (dot) neidhardt (at) gmail (dot) com.
You can see photos and maps of past game at the old website.
The Human...