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Players and pawns : how chess builds community and culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fine, Gary Alan (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Chess > Psychological aspects.
Chess > Social aspects.
Chess > Tournaments.
Schack > psykologiska aspekter.
Schackspelare > sociala aspekter.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: a tournament revealed
  • Introduction: first moves
  • The mind, the body, and the soul of chess
  • Doing chess
  • Temporal tapestries
  • Shared pasts and sticky culture
  • The worlds of chess
  • Status games and soft community
  • Chess in the world
  • Conclusion: piece work.