Chess Horses for Courses

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Human-size chess game with actual soldier in St. Petersburg, Russia (1924) © Flickr user DailyLolPics.com under Creative Commons.

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Shouldn't that be 'actual soldiers'? For more chess from Dailylolpics.com (NB: Not really 'For All Ages'!), see +25 Memes About Chess, although I only counted 14 images plus one on a separate 'Vertical Chess' page. The last (first?) meme is a short comic titled 'Chess in a nutshell'. It goes like this...

Pawn: Sire! The opposing forces have broken through our defenses!

King: What? How? We built an impenetrable wall!

Pawn: A horse jumped over our castle and landed on one of the priests.

King: Blast! I should have known. Have our infantry rush into enemy territory. Any who survive will become exact replicas of my wife!

...The punch line is 'Chess is weird.' (But we knew that already.)

[P.S. The chess board in the photo is located at Palace Square (wikipedia.org), St. Petersburg.]