Saturday, March 29, 2025

Photos of Ephraim Kishon Playing Chess

Source: Kishon's memorial web page

Despite his love of the game, there don't seem to be many photos of Ephraim Kishon playing chess, except occasionally in simultaneous displays or the like (as opposed to tournament games). In particular, two black and white photos of him doing so are found on his memorial web site (link above). The same site also has a note about his chess computer, the talking chesster. There was also a chess set in his office, as seen in, for example, the following detail from the photo of his office on the Hebrew wikipedia web page about him: 



Above the chess set, by the way, is a framed death notice lamenting the death of Stalin, which the pro-USSR Israeli party, Mapam, published at the time. Another example is on his official web page (in the Hebrew version):


Ephraim Kishon and Chess II

 




Ephraim Kishon was a chess player, and his life was in fact saved by chess, as we saw before in this blog. It is therefore only fitting that a memorial for 100 years for his birth was arranged last year in - the Chess House in Tel Aviv, in Tagore St., Tel Aviv, by the Tel Aviv municipal government.