The French artist Marcel Duchamp is widely known for his readymades ... He aimed to depict the mental activity that occurs during a chess game rather than just chess players playing chess.

Marcel Duchamp ... highest form of conceptual art, a game, and a performance. As much as he disliked art’s merely ‘retinal’ forms, Duchamp started his career in the visual arts, to finish entirely ...

Duchamp once said: "A chess game is very plastic. You construct it ... (9) All quotations from Duchamp are from "The Works of Marcel Duchamp: A Catalog," Marcel Duchamp (New York: Museum of Modern Art ...