{"id":809,"date":"2026-02-21T19:53:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/?page_id=809"},"modified":"2026-03-18T00:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:05:44","slug":"poster-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/am\/exhibit\/poster-7\/","title":{"rendered":"poster 7"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aesthetics of the Enlightenment: The R\u00e9gence Legacy of Philidor and Napoleon<\/b><\/h3>

As one of the most prestigious and iconic designs in chess history, the R\u00e9gence style takes its name from the legendary Caf\u00e9 de la R\u00e9gence in Paris. These sets embody the era when chess migrated from royal courts to the intellectual heart of Europe, gracing the tables of philosophers, scientists, and revolutionaries. Throughout the 18th century and much of the 19th, this design served as the universal language of the game, witnessing the strategic moves of minds that changed the course of history, such as Napoleon Bonaparte, Benjamin Franklin, and Voltaire.<\/p>

During this era, when the great master Fran\u00e7ois-Andr\u00e9 Danican Philidor provided the game with a modern theoretical foundation declaring that <\/span>“Pawns are the soul of chess”<\/b> the slender, tiered, and architectural lines of the R\u00e9gence pieces became the visual signature of this intellectual revolution. This set stands as a living memory, carrying the liberated, graceful, and strategic legacy of the Enlightenment into the present day.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Regence model chess set of Istanbul Chess Association’s Founding Member Prof. Dr. Ahmet Tevfik Y\u00fccesoy (made of boxwood)<\/b><\/h3>

You can find the chess set photo and accompanying letter below by A. Do\u011fan G\u00fcnsav to Serta\u00e7 Dalk\u0131ran. G\u00fcnsav shares that the chess set was gifted to him by Prof. Yucesoy’s family after Yucesoy’s death.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Aesthetics of the Enlightenment: The R\u00e9gence Legacy of Philidor and Napoleon As one of the most prestigious and iconic designs in chess history, the R\u00e9gence style takes its name from the legendary Caf\u00e9 de la R\u00e9gence in Paris. These sets embody the era when chess migrated from royal courts to the intellectual heart of Europe, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":743,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-809","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/809\/revisions\/1895"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}