We took part recently in a architectural competition for a building for an European Chess association and i was reading trough some of the chess books i ordered at the time and came across the name of Marcel Duchamp, who I learned had turned a very successful chess player in his later years. (to a certain discontent of some of the established a the time chess masters).
The book is called The Chess Artist by J C Hallman, One quote stuck in my memory - "He preferred a beautiful loss to a boring win"
Duchamp, along all the attributions he has to the modern art we know today, was also one of the first artist to try and express/implement 4th dimension in his work, which could be very tricky when you are working with "static" lets say media/tools.
/Duchamp_-_Nude_Descending_a_Staircase
Next think i would record for my diary is a quote by Duchamp while on exhibition of aviation technology: "Painting is washed up. Who will ever do anything better than that propeller?"
Attached bellow are some photos taken in the Milan Design Museum and London Science Museum:
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