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This Painting Tricked Everyone With a Hidden Message [8:07]
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| July 31, 2025
| Inspiraggio
Posted on 10/26/2025 11:38:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
For over a century, everyone believed that The Devil's Checkmate (1831), the famous painting by Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch, depicted the ultimate defeat of the human soul at the hands of the devil -- a dark scene with no apparent way out.
But in 1888, chess champion Paul Morphy saw the painting... and noticed something no one else had.
According to the story, he studied the board, analyzed the position of the pieces, and revealed that the young man wasn't lost after all -- he still had one move left.
This discovery not only changed how we look at the painting, but also what it means. This Painting Tricked Everyone With a Hidden Message | 8:07
Inspiraggio | 317K subscribers | 351,665 views | July 31, 2025
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: art; chess; chessmaster; devilscheckmate; epigraphyandlanguage; faithandphilosophy; friedrichretzsch; godsgravesglyphs; ovaltine; paulmorphy; symbolism; vice; virtue
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10/26/2025 4:54:14 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: tumblindice
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10/26/2025 5:45:08 PM PDT
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minnesota_bound
(Making money now. Still want much more.)
To: left that other site
I think belongs in The Academy of the Overrated, along with Heinrich Boll and Norman Mailer. 🥁😁
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10/27/2025 6:21:17 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: tumblindice
The most memorable track of the Uneasy Rider. 🎵
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10/27/2025 6:22:57 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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