Checkmate: 24 Stylish Chess Images

Checkmate: 24 Stylish Chess Images

Chess is known as the thinking man's game—a great equalizer that ignores physical prowess in favor of sheer mental skill. There's something cold-blooded and methodical about the whole thing—maybe because the Soviets reigned supreme for decades and we know them to be patient, reptilian bastards. At Complex, however, we love chess for its elegance and the respect its players command so effortlessly—be it two old-timers surrounded by pigeons at a park or Wu-Tang's RZA beating dudes silly at the Kings Invitational.



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Bobby Fischer

Spock!

Maurice Ashley

Ray Charles

Asher Roth

LED Set

Electric Set

Fidel Castro

Che Guevara

RZA

Chess, Wine and Bare Feet

Kate Moss

Man in white with black umbrella

Bob Dylan

Old Folks

Young man in a white tee

Fresh (Sam Jackson)

Young Boy

Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca

Martin Fuchs

Lennox Lewis

Chess Boxing

Garry Kasparov

Magnus Carlsen