Chess in Colour

I'm Dylan - Artist, Chess player and coach. My book, Blunders in Colour is coming soon!

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Ding Liren 🇨🇳 WCC 2024. Moves of a tiger, temperament of a tortoise.

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Guess the player. 🤔 Who is the owner of this hand which has just blundered?

Hint: He studied law and is a fan of philosophy.

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When the only trick left is the very continuation that seems destined to transpire against your will.
@ArjunErigaisi

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@Rafael_Alcides_ Somehow I’m told he has never won it in his career @Rafael_Alcides_

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Guess the player. 🤔

Hint: he peaked at #4 in the world and has played in 3 candidates tournaments.

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Teimour Radjabov 🇦🇿
Candidates 2022.

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Bobby Fischer’s adversity was not only his opponent, and not only the Soviet Union, but also himself.

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Robert James Fischer 🇺🇸 WCC 1972. A tortured psyche, a neglected bishop, foreshadowing of a tumble down a rabbit hole of his own mind’s digging.

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Guess the player. Hint: this was one of the most perplexing, head scratching blunders of all time 🙃

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We’ve all been there. But Levon recovered and went on to win this match vs. Duda!

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Levon Aronian 🇦🇲🇺🇸 Champion’s Chess Tour 2021. It happens to the best of us, and @LevAronian certainly is among the best.

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Guess the player. 🤔

If you add enough water, Gouache can behave like watercolor and as powerfully present heavily layered Gouache can be, there’s a tragic quality to a washy existence that almost wasn’t.

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A massive blind spot by everyone involved. Peter Svidler 🇷🇺 Champs Showdown, Chess 960 2019. 🙃

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Peter Svidler 🇷🇺 World Cup Final, 2015. Better to have played and blundered than to never have played at all. @polborta

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A detail is a moment. In some ways the sum of the parts of a life do make up its whole. Therefore, to celebrate a moment (however unpleasant) is to celebrate a life.

Can you guess the player? 🙃

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Vasyl Ivanchuk, World Blitz Championship 2024. Gouache on paper.

He had played a brilliant game but lost control of the position before letting his flag fall. One of the most gut-wrenching moments professional chess has produced. 🙃

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Vasyl Ivanchuk 🇺🇦 World Blitz Ch. 2024.

I’ve never seen such inner turmoil on display over a game of chess, let alone one lasting fewer than 10 minutes. It puts into question the thesis that one’s emotional investment is a product of time labored over the board. 🙃

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Guess the player. 🙃 Hint: his nickname is also the name of a horror villain.

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Jan-Krzysztof Duda, FIDE Candidates 2022. A rough go for the Polish prodigy, but wise words from a fallen hero, Daniel Naroditsky.

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Ian Nepomniachtchi, WCC 2022. To blunder is natural; to blunder on a world stage is not something we were evolved to cope with.