Meticulously charting Marcel's chess moves

The British artist Tom Hackney, unlike Marcel Duchamp, has not given up on painting. But like the French Dadaist, Hackney has a reverence for chess—and specifically for Duchamp's approach to the game. Hackney's current show, Corresponding Squares: Painting the Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp at Francis Naumann Fine Art in New York (until 29 April) includes 18 abstract pictures that map exactly various games between Duchamp and his opponents. (Incidentally, an archive of Duchamp's games, whi