“Imagine…”

At the beginning of the 1970s, John Lennon dreamed of a world without war, and his partner Yoko Ono symbolised the futility of fighting and wars with a chessboard in which all the pieces are white. On the occasion of the Speed Chess Championship in London, which too place in February, Jason Kouchak draws a link between modern fast-paced chess and a peaceful world united through chess and music. | Photo: André Schulz