Photo from the visual project <n>Dear, BlackMan</n>.

Artist <n>Marcel Duchamp</n> playing chess in 1958. Photo by <n>Arnold Rosenberg</n>.

A still from the 2003 film <n>Coffee and Cigarettes</n>, directed by <n>Jim Jarmusch</n>.

A <n>Handcrafted Chess Set</n> by artist <n>Paul Joshua Wilcox</n>.

Men play chess at the <n>Széchenyi Thermal Bath</n> in Budapest, 2000. Photo by <n>Martin Parr</n>.

Artist <n>Marcel Duchamp</n> directs a life-size chess game in Connecticut, 1956. Photo by <n>Philippe Halsman</n>.

An illustration by <n>Alex Castro</n> for <n>The Verge</n> about the Las Vegas Sphere.

A 1955 photograph titled <n>Échecs</n> by French street photographer <n>René Maltête</n>.

Artist <n>Marcel Duchamp</n> photographed by <n>Victor Obsatz</n> in 1953.

A fractal artwork titled <n>Recursive Chessboard</n>.

Photograph by <n>Vsevolod Tarasevich</n> of men playing chess in Moscow, 1950.

Model <n>Park Tae-min</n> for <n>GQ Korea</n>. Photo by <n>Ahn Yeon-hoo</n>.

A scene from <n>OSS 117: Lost in Rio</n> featuring the <n>Elda chair</n> designed by <n>Joe Colombo</n>.

<n>Salvador Dalí</n> and <n>Marcel Duchamp</n> playing chess in 1966. Photo by <n>Robert Descharnes</n>.

Cover art for the <n>Mystery</n> EP by musicians <n>Allen Stone</n> and <n>PJ Morton</n>. Artwork by <n>Jon Salter</n>.

The card game <n>Anymals</n>, designed by <n>Ken Garland</n> in 1966 for <n>Galt Toys</n>.

Men playing chess in the thermal waters of the <n>Széchenyi Thermal Bath</n> in Budapest.

<n>La partie d'échecs</n> (1961) by photographer <n>René Maltête</n>.

Photo by <n>Fabrizio Ferri</n> with makeup by <n>Vito Biondi</n>.

<n>Gunter Sachs</n> playing strip chess in Saint-Tropez. Photo by <n>Elliott Erwitt</n>, 1978.

The <n>Checkerboard Moss Garden</n> at <n>Tōfuku-ji Temple</n>, designed by <n>Mirei Shigemori</n>.

The <n>Moss Garden at Tofukuji Temple</n> in Kyoto, Japan.

Album art for <n>Updated Floral Experience</n> by <n>MACマイナス</n>.