I feel that these friends in Jacob Lawrence’s Chess Players (1954) do not know how to play chess. Do you see any logical set of moves that could have led to such an arrangement? I see an illogical one, but perhaps I am mistaken.


I feel that these friends in Jacob Lawrence’s Chess Players (1954) do not know how to play chess. Do you see any logical set of moves that could have led to such an arrangement? I see an illogical one, but perhaps I am mistaken.

