Chess Players

40" x 48"
Oil
1996

Here we have two players, and chess board in between. I didn't put any pieces on the board because the players don't really need them. We know that great players can play this game blind-folded. There is another reason I didn't put the pieces on...the game doesn't need them anymore because the chess game as we knew it, with its creative spirits in it, I am afraid, is over.

With the appearance of the Deep Blue (the computer), the great game of chess as we knew it is dead. It becomes a question of who will make greater numbers in the shortest time. Of course, there always will be a kind of club chess; people playing in clubs and parks and so on.