The admin from http://cheszpatzerblog.blogspot.com/ just sent me the picture of this chess set by Yoko Ono.
Imagine if there would be no color boundary, no racism, no sexism, no discrimination of any kind! Imagine living in a peaceful world!
Here is the link for the write ups concerning the event at Montreal Gazzete.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Travel/Yoko+launches+exhibition+MMFA/1448342/story.html
Imagine by the Beatles / John Lennon
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
I think this is great and I am very happy that someone has the unbounding determination to turn young minds into efficient, strong, critical thinking ones. This is something that agrees with my philosophy that time neither begins nor ends. Therefore, we can neither be late nor early, so we are always on time.
Arriving on the level, and departing on the square.
Charell Williams
I would like to share a poem as well with the Community.
Who knows when our meeting shall ever be.
It might be for years or
It might be forever.
Let us then take a lump of clay,
Wet it, pat it,
And make an image of you
And an image of me.
Then smash them, crash them,
And, with a little water,
Knead them together.
And out of the clay we’ll remake
An image of you, and an image of me.
Thus in my clay, there’s a little of you,
And in your clay, there’s a little of me.
And nothing will ever set us apart.
Living, we’ll be forever in each other’s heart,
And dead, we’ll be buried together.
John Lennon was a member of the Beatles, yes. But this, one of his most memorable songs was written AFTER the Beatles separated!!
So remove the Beatles tag, please.
yoko ono had blood in her vien coming from imperial line of japanese emperor.
Above all she’s an artist.
Read more about her.
Ah, ncie one! I still remember when my father woke me up in the middle of the night, early morning, to tell me Lennon was shot. He could deliver the goods.
I once saw a comic based on a chess set- it was about the same time John was shot, showing a chesss set with only white pieces with the words ” South African chess championship”. Since then Ive been in SA playing chess.
imagine US turning to socialism…imangine an idiot president..supproting global scamming…oops don’t have to imagine at all bummer.
Let me guess…
White wins the game everytime.
John was absolutely right. Humanity has been making wars throughout its existence because of three things:
1. Religion
2. Nationalism
and above all
3. POSSESIONS
As long as these three things are a part of this world there won’t be any piece.
Human race is doomed.
This set can be seen in the Imagine film they made about 1971 (not the one with the same title made in the late 1980s, although it may be there too, I can’t remember).
We will see this exhibition tomorrow (it opened publicly today)! My family is up from Buffalo for a visit.
Japanese chess (Shogi) sets usually have the same colour for both sides—they need to, because a captured piece can be placed in your employ! The pieces have directional bases, so which way it points determines whose side it’s on. One can do this with the Staunton pieces except the rook and pawn, and even with those there’s usually a seam that could be oriented filewise for White and rankwise for Black. Alas, the natural human tendency to make distinctions and choose up sides isn’t going to be chased by a song, and one cannot get anywhere without the distinction between 0 and 1.
TO ANON 3:57PM. SOOO RIGHT UNFORTUNATELY.LENNON WAS A GREAT ARTIST.
Nice idea. But I would be totally confused in the middlegame!
Yes, and the experiments in such imaginings (e.g., PDRK, PRC, USSR, Cuba) tend to be horrific nightmares.
well said.
oops…. NOT by the Beatles. Imagine is by JOHN LENNON only, who was a member/leader of the Beatles