{"id":667,"date":"2015-02-11T20:32:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T03:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/?p=667"},"modified":"2015-02-11T20:32:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T03:32:54","slug":"birth-of-the-chess-queen-plate-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/archives\/667","title":{"rendered":"Birth of the Chess Queen, Plate 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queens teaching their children to play chess. Alfonso’s\u00a0Book of Chess<\/em>, Spain, 1283.<\/p>\n

The image depicts two queens instructing\u00a0their youthful daughters to play chess, with a rather large red and yellow chess board separating the mother-daughter teams. While the artistry is not particularly fascinating it depicts a rather surprising cultural phenomenon that sprang up around chess, and really guaranteed the survival of Chess up through today. \u00a0Chess was considered a crucial part of European children’s education, eventually even being included in school curriculum. \u00a0One school even required its students to take summers classes to teach academic\u00a0subjects delayed by\u00a0Chess studies. Chess and the mastery of it becomes something valuable to pass down to Europe’s youth. \u00a0It was a skill needed to display your intellectual prowess\u00a0to your domestic and international opponents. The importance of the image depicting daughter’s being instructed, really speaks to the pervasiveness of the game. \u00a0The game was not only men’s entertainment. The mastery of chess also had tremendous social consequences for girls. Girls needed to be well versed\u00a0in the ways of Chess to show their worth to potential suitors, it was even seen as a way to entice the opposite sex. \u00a0Thus leading to Chess’s connection with the Cult of Love and even the development of erotic Chess. Chess’s popularity, and the survival of it, is largely due to the immense importance that was placed on it by older generations, as a way for its youth to flourish in Medieval Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Queens teaching their children to play chess. Alfonso’s\u00a0Book of Chess, Spain, 1283. The image depicts two queens instructing\u00a0their youthful daughters to play chess, with a rather large red and yellow chess board separating the mother-daughter teams. While the artistry is not particularly fascinating it depicts a rather surprising cultural phenomenon that sprang up around chess,…<\/p>\n

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