A Cultural History Of Chess Players
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Author |
: John Sharples |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2017-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526120557 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526120550 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis A cultural history of chess-players by : John Sharples
This inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player. It takes as its premise the idea that the chess-player has become a fragmented collection of images, underpinned by challenges to, and confirmations of, chess’s status as an intellectually-superior and socially-useful game, particularly since the medieval period. Yet, the chess-player is an understudied figure. No previous work has shone a light on the chess-player itself. Increasingly, chess-histories have retreated into tidy consensus. This work aspires to a novel reading of the figure as both a flickering beacon of reason and a sign of monstrosity. To this end, this book, utilising a wide range of sources, including newspapers, periodicals, detective novels, science-fiction, and comic-books, is underpinned by the idea that the chess-player is a pluralistic subject used to articulate a number of anxieties pertaining to themes of mind, machine, and monster.
Author |
: Gary Alan Fine |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 2015-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226264981 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022626498X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Players and Pawns by : Gary Alan Fine
A chess match seems about as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. But is this the case? Inevitably these two minds are in dialogue, and perhaps might be better understood as partners in play. And surrounding that one-on-one contest is a community life that can be as dramatic and intense as the across-the-board confrontation. Gary Alan Fine has spent years immersed in several communities of amateur and professional chess players--children and adults--and in Players and Pawns he takes readers deep inside these worlds, revealing a complex, brilliant, feisty world of commitment and conflict. Opening with a close look at a routine, yet financially troubled, tournament in Atlantic City, Fine carries us from planning and setup through the climactic final day's match-ups between the weekend's top players, introducing us along the way to countless players and their relationships to the game. At tournaments like that one, as well as in locales as diverse as collegiate matches and cash games in Manhattan's Washington Square Park, players find themselves part of what Fine terms a soft community, an open, welcoming space built on their shared commitment to the game. Within that community, chess players find both support and challenges, all amid a shared interest in and love of the long-standing traditions of the game, traditions that help chess players build a communal identity.
Author |
: Harold C. Schonberg |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton |
Total Pages |
: 653 |
Release |
: 1981-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0393013022 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780393013023 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lives of the Great Composers by : Harold C. Schonberg
Biographies of the important composers from Monteverdi and Bach to Bartok and Webern are designed to show the history of music.
Author |
: H. E. Bird |
Publisher |
: Good Press |
Total Pages |
: 178 |
Release |
: 2021-05-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: EAN:4057664620385 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chess History and Reminiscences by : H. E. Bird
This historical work presents a concise record of the evolution of chess. The book covers everything from the ancient roots of the game, starting from India, Persia (Iraq) and China to the 1880s, including mentions in the poetry of the Middle Ages. The book's author, H.E. Bird, was an extraordinary chess player with an opening named for him and was also considered a historian of chess origins. In this work, he delivered authentic information about chess from his 19th Century point of view. Bird precisely tracks the changes in the game into the final modifications in the mid 15th century and then looks at the rise of interest in chess in England. He also provides some valuable insights about Phiidor, LaBourdonnais, and many other chief personalities in chess from the middle to late 1800s. This well-written account of the history of chess holds the attention of every reader throughout and is of special interest to all chess enthusiasts.
Author |
: George Walker |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 414 |
Release |
: 1850 |
ISBN-10 |
: BSB:BSB10431972 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chess and Chess-players by : George Walker
Author |
: George Allen |
Publisher |
: Kessinger Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 172 |
Release |
: 2009-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1104497093 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781104497095 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life of Philidor by : George Allen
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author |
: Andre Danican Philidor |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2008-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1436970407 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781436970402 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Introduction to the History and Study of Chess by : Andre Danican Philidor
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author |
: Reena Dube |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 271 |
Release |
: 2005-05-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230509665 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230509665 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory by : Reena Dube
Indispensable for students of film studies, in this book Reena Dube explores Satyajit Ray's films, and The Chess Players in particular, in the context of discourses of labour in colonial and postcolonial conditions. Starting from Daniel Defoe and moving through history, short story and film to the present, Dube widens her analysis with comparisons in which Indian films are situated alongside Hollywood and other films, and interweaves historical and cultural debates within film theory. Her book treats film as part of the larger cultural production of India and provides a historical sense of the cross genre borrowings, traditions and debates that have deeply influenced Indian cinema and its viewers.
Author |
: Henry Bird |
Publisher |
: DigiCat |
Total Pages |
: 173 |
Release |
: 2022-05-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: EAN:8596547005520 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chess History and Reminiscences by : Henry Bird
Chess History and Reminiscences is a book about the history if chess by English chess player Henry Bird. The author's goal is to trace the ancient origins of the game of chess, beginning with what is known from India, Persia and China. He tracks the changes that happened in the game of chess into the final modifications in the mid-15th century and surveys the rise of interest in chess in England and other parts of the world. The book provides a historical look at some of the earliest games notated._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_
Author |
: Julio Carvalho |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 149 |
Release |
: 2023-12-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783031468544 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3031468546 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Cultural History of Copyright by : Julio Carvalho
Combining philosophical and historical perspectives, this book focuses on the rise of a legal institution that has dominated the economy of knowledge ever since it burst onto the scene at the dawn of modernity in the heartlands of Europe. From the age of print to the age of networks and disruptive technologies, this book explores the place of copyright amid the various conceptual transformations it has undergone over time. Uniquely, it presents an in-depth philosophical treatment of the cultural history of copyright from its beginnings to the present. Although copyright is a central topic, the content is by no means limited to it. The main question the author seeks to answer is: how do legal institutions emerge and how do they evolve over time? Though copyright is a wonderful example for tackling this question, a selection of other institutions, such as the social practice of promising in eighteenth-century Britain, are also addressed at considerable length. What the author has managed to show in this book is that the transformations which modern law has undergone since the eighteenth century are inextricably linked to those which have shaped the modern subject to the core. Law forms part of those great schemes of intelligibility that allow us to understand ourselves better. We need to delve deep into the multiple layers of culture if we want to fully understand how the morphology and cultural archaeology of our legal institutions intertwine.