Americans travelling to Prague might want to visit the DOX Contemporary Art Center’s “Art of Chess” exhibition that opened March 31, 2010.
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Former world champions Anatoly Karpov and Boris Spassky played a blindfolded game (Two Knights Defense) to open the exhibition:
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Photo of Karpov and Spassky viewing the chessman set created by Los Angeles artist Paul McCarthy:
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I rather liked the concept of Maurizio Catellan’s “Untitled (Good against Evil)”, with Hitler as the king and Cruella deVille as the queen…
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