Friday, January 30, 2009

Friday Picture Puzzle

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.  

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12 comments:

  1. ejhFri Jan 30, 10:28:00 am 2009

    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.

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  2. ejhFri Jan 30, 10:31:00 am 2009

    I 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.

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  3. Mike GFri Jan 30, 10:31:00 am 2009

    I 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 ...

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  4. Tom ChiversFri Jan 30, 10:31:00 am 2009

    Gosh. I'd thought Harold Bishop was the Dalai Lama! Well spotted.

    I know who the pawn is (and why he is a pawn) but the knight I don't know . . .

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  5. Tom ChiversFri Jan 30, 10:43:00 am 2009

    Btw, I just realised there's a close-up here.

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  6. ejhFri Jan 30, 10:46:00 am 2009

    I hate to be a bore (no, really) but have they set up White as Player 2?

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  7. Mike GFri Jan 30, 11:47:00 am 2009

    According 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?

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  8. ejhFri Jan 30, 11:58:00 am 2009

    Come on, we surely have to have some readers under thirty...

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  9. Tom ChiversFri Jan 30, 12:04:00 pm 2009

    I reckon his hairdo places him in the 1980s...

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  10. AnonymousFri Jan 30, 12:52:00 pm 2009

    I'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?

    Antony

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  11. Tom ChiversFri Jan 30, 02:08:00 pm 2009

    Antony! I'm both impressed and appalled!

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  12. AnonymousFri Jan 30, 03:26:00 pm 2009

    Hahaha, what can I say - lucky guess! ;-)

    Antony

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