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Author |
: Frances Parkinson Keyes |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 542 |
Release |
: 1961 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0855946547 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780855946548 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Chess Players by : Frances Parkinson Keyes
Based on the life of Paul Morphy.
Author |
: Reuben Fine |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 102 |
Release |
: 2009-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 4871878155 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9784871878159 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Psychology of the Chess Player by : Reuben Fine
Dr. Fine, both a pyschoanalyst and a great chess player of the 20th century, analyzes what sets chess champions apart.
Author |
: James Eade |
Publisher |
: B.E.S. Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2021-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1438089422 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781438089423 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Chess Player's Bible by : James Eade
Author |
: Frances Parkinson Keyes |
Publisher |
: Ishi Press |
Total Pages |
: 544 |
Release |
: 2015-01-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 4871874176 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9784871874175 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Chess Players by : Frances Parkinson Keyes
The Chess Players is a historical novel based on the life of Paul Morphy, who is considered to have been the world chess champion and possibly the greatest chess player in the history of the game. However, this is not a book about the game of chess. There are no chess diagrams in this book, no moves, no positions, no opening traps or tricks on how to catch an unwary opponent. Rather, this book is about the players, the people who play chess. It was a popular book when it came out in 1960, spending several weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers List. Paul Charles Morphy was born on June 22, 1837 in New Orleans Louisiana. He learned the moves of chess simply by watching his uncle and father play. Nobody taught him the rules. By age 9 he was regarded as the best player in New Orleans. By age 21 he was regarded as the best chess player in the world. But then he quit chess and never played a serious game again. Ever since, players have wondered what ever happened to Paul Morphy. This book by Frances Parkinson Keyes is historical fiction. However, she went to great lengths to research her subject matter and ensure the historical, geographical, linguistic and even scientific accuracy of her writings. In 1959, while writing this book, she contacted David Lawson, who was recearching the Life of Paul Morphy. Lawson had been researching the Life of Morphy since 1938. Finally, in 1976, Lawson published Paul Morphy: Pride and Sorrow of Chess, the best biography of Morphy and the book Lawson had been working on for 38 years. Lawson was 89 years old when the book came out.
Author |
: Howard Staunton |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 532 |
Release |
: 1849 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433066603238 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Chess-player's Companion by : Howard Staunton
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 |
: Howard Staunton |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 156 |
Release |
: 1850 |
ISBN-10 |
: KBNL:KBNL03000023027 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Chess-player's Text Book by : Howard Staunton
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 468 |
Release |
: 1841 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:555014234 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Chess Player's Chronicle by :
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 448 |
Release |
: 1841 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433066639133 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chess Player's Chronicle by :
Author |
: J. Kling |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 202 |
Release |
: 1853 |
ISBN-10 |
: NLS:V001491577 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Chess Player by : J. Kling