Here's a photograph of a chess board:

Naturally a dark square is in the right hand corner, but who are the pieces? And why?
Internet users who want a closer look can click the image to enlarge.
But interested club members may want to check out the original, because it apparently resides in
The White Horse pub in Brixton.
I can do the Queen, Elvis, Harold Bishop and Roy Castle. The knight's too young for me to recognise him and the pawn looks like he's from the Seventies.
ReplyDeleteI mentioned this to Tom when I saw this piece was being put together, but I lived within a couple of hundred yeards from that pub for thirty months and must have walked past it many times. Curiously I never remotely felt drawn to view the interior.
ReplyDeleteI recognise the King (he seems to have taken time off from working at the chip shop round the corner). The Queen is familiar too and the pawn looks like one of those soft porn film stars ... but why is beyond me ...
ReplyDeleteGosh. I'd thought Harold Bishop was the Dalai Lama! Well spotted.
ReplyDeleteI know who the pawn is (and why he is a pawn) but the knight I don't know . . .
Btw, I just realised there's a close-up here.
ReplyDeleteI hate to be a bore (no, really) but have they set up White as Player 2?
ReplyDeleteAccording to google there are a number of light entertainers with rhe surname Knight but none looks like this young chap ... perhaps there is a horsey connecton, e.g. he's a famous jockey?
ReplyDeleteCome on, we surely have to have some readers under thirty...
ReplyDeleteI reckon his hairdo places him in the 1980s...
ReplyDeleteI'll have a punt - the knight is Jordan Knight (from boy band New Kids on the Block), and the pawn looks like "pawn" star Ron Jeremy?
ReplyDeleteAntony
Antony! I'm both impressed and appalled!
ReplyDeleteHahaha, what can I say - lucky guess! ;-)
ReplyDeleteAntony