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  • A hand hanging over a chessboard has made its last move: white wins because the white king is protected by a condom; representing protection against AIDS. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
  • An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, ca. 1804, after C. Gold.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
  • Apollo presiding over a gentleman of sensual appetite; representing the sanguine temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
  • Men gathered around a table as Philidor plays a game of chess wearing a blindfold. Engraving.
  • An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, c. 1804, after C. Gold.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
  • Apollo presiding over a gentleman of sensual appetite; representing the sanguine temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
  • Officers recuperating on board the "Hercules", Hong Kong. Wood engraving after G.W. Cooke (?), 1858.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
  • A man's hand moving a Chinese character from the word 'AIDS' on a chessboard while leaving the word 'SIDA' (AIDS); a warning about AIDS. Colour lithograph for the Unidade Educaçāo para a Saúde, Macau, ca. 1995.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.