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2021 Edition of the Project is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth of Georgia

Chess

Object

Nino Sekhniashvili

sheep-bones, leather
2012

The game is a hybrid between two games and systems. Sheep-bones are traditionally used to predict the future, game of destiny, the bones being thrown by random. Chess is the contrary - a game of tactics, controlling the further moves and predicting with rationality. In the Georgian language, there are many sayings in connection with sheep-bones- to throw a bone for somebody means to please someone; red bone implies to try to be something special.