Making
chess culture wearable
Modern Defense lives where chess meets the pile of shirts by your bed. For those who love both the game and the characters that give it color.
New collection!
‘New’, sure…—though technically, also our first.
For now: T-shirts, sweaters and coffee mugs of—amongst others—a stacked salute to five Soviet legends, a book (cover) tribute to chess’s reluctant prophet, and chess-gang-sign for what might be ‘the best tested opening with white of ’em all’. Pick your fav/Order ’m all… your move!
Codes collide. From Washington Square Park to world titles. Same move. Best by test: e4. Crewneck available in 5(!) colors, rocking—also very different from the t-shirt!—the e4 ‘gang sign’ on your chest, but your BF’s memorable side note nice and big on the back of this glorious sweater.
Bobby came up in New York, from park games to proper clubs somewhere halfway last century, but ‘Best by test’ still remains a chess truism. The question though is ‘Who did all that testing?’ (Probably Botvinnik, who ran a state-funded chess lab the size of a small country.)
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Chess is about more than winning. It’s learning. Losing. Mastery and Madness. It’s Prep. Art. Math. Obsession. Life. And lack thereof.
* Chess is about more than winning. It’s learning. Losing. Mastery and Madness. It’s Prep. Art. Math. Obsession. Life. And lack thereof.
