Alexey Troitsky: Endgame at the Very Start

I was reading about the work of Alexey  Troitsky regarding the importance of a few chess pieces left at the end of a game. He is credited as being the mind behind the strategies involving pawns and kings when other pieces are not on the board anymore.

Based on my impression of Troitsky’s work, I wanted to pain a “cranial” man with 20 or less brush strokes on hare skin. It was my way of being strategic with a few strokes, monochrome colours and yet to capture a moment of thinking and strategy.

It did take me exactly 20 strokes to give him mustache, goatee and distinctive hair style… As for the endgame, I am still in the game with my artistic explorations!

October 14, 2017

© Vahé A. Kazandjian, 2017