My Chess Blog

" I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. I free myself for today and forever from human immobility. I'm in constant movement. " - Dziga Vertov   The revolutionary Soviet film director speaks for.....and on behalf of the 'static camera! Though, the camera...." that mechanical eye " showed the world the way only " it " can see.....it allowed men to see something extra....something beyond....something that " it " did not know when it captured....a particular picture.....a particular period of time.....a particular part of what will become...History! The camera has the capacity to capture only reality.....what is!  And this " what is " encompasses human possibilities as well as human fallibilities......evoke human brilliance.....as well as allow him to be at his banal best! It is not a replacement to " the eye " - the biological camera....but compliments it...

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is the portrait of the artist, not the sitter" - Oscar Wilde In his seminal work; " The act of creation ", Arthur Koestler  writes....quoting Sir Frederick Bartlett - the French psychologist....who said, " Even the most elementary perception have character of inferential constructions " ....that " even the inferential process, which controls perception, again works unconsciously....or below the level of consciousness ... " Well, then, what is self portrait!? What you proffer is not self portrait! It is just pretense. What shows up...inspite of you is self portrait! In chess too, the game should happen " inspite of you "....then it attains the quality of great self portrait! .....everything else.....irrespective of the result....is only a copy....a poor imitation......crap...! There were a few great masters who attained this level.....and the prime amongst them was David Bro...