Name: Players and Pawns: How Chess Builds Community and Culture (en Inglés)
SKU: 62053662
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Author: Gary Alan Fine
ISBN: 9780226264981

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Players and Pawns: How Chess Builds Community and Culture (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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University Of Chicago Press

Autor

Gary Alan Fine

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

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Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780226264981

Players and Pawns: How Chess Builds Community and Culture (en Inglés)

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A chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. In contrast, Gary Alan Fine argues that chess is a social duet: two players in silent dialogue who always take each other into account in their play. Surrounding that one-on-one contest is a community life that can be nearly as dramatic and intense as the across-the-board confrontation. Fine has spent years immersed in the communities of amateur and professional chess players, and with Players and Pawns he takes readers deep inside them, revealing a complex, brilliant, feisty world of commitment and conflict. Within their 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. Full of idiosyncratic characters and dramatic gameplay, Players and Pawns is a celebration of the fascinating world of serious chess.