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Live Online Chess: Social Features & Downsides

Author : Jose Fadul

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 140 pages

File Size : 40,22 MB

Release : 2012-10-26

Category : Education

ISBN : 1300228245

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Book Description

The book features social network analysis of the author's live rated online chess games with various players (including high and middle-strength computer software) from different time zones and cultures around the world. For most of them the social features and downsides of real-time online chess were investigated and documented, including social magnetism, gambling, anonymity and use of pseudonyms, nationalism, Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender (LGBT) issues, Islamophobia, and social stratification and mobility. The accompanying game annotations and post-game discussions mainly dwell on responsible participation and civil discourse using live online chess games as medium. Online chess has become a test case for us as an international/trans-national group to think about how we can live in a socially-differentiated society, where its members subscribe to a plurality of forms of knowledge arising from considerably different environments, experiences and genetic makeup.



I Play Against Pieces

Author : Svetozar Gligoric

Publisher : Batsford

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 18,6 MB

Release : 2002-10-31

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 9780713487701

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Book Description

Yugoslav grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric, once rated the strongest European chess player outside of Russia, has pursued a long and distinguished chess career. This highly acclaimed collection of over 100 of his best games, including classic wins against world champions and other top players such as Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, Keres, Korchnoi, Larsen, Najdorf, and Reshevsky, now appears for the first time in English.The title of the book 'I Play Against Pieces' reflects Gligoric's thoroughly objective approach to chess, which has always been characterised by great clarity and logic, resulting in a wealth of model games. The fact that these games, replete with instructive tactics and strategies, are classified under openings will particularly benefit readers interested in the study of Queen's Pawn Openings as White and the King's Indian Defence and Ruy Lopez as Black of which Gligoric was a true connoisseur.



American Grandmaster

Author : Joel Benjamin

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 47,7 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Chess

ISBN : 9781857445527

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In American Grandmaster, Joel Benjamin takes the reader on a journey through chess adventures spanning more than thirty years. Tracing through his own career, from being a prodigy in the 'Fischer boom' era thorough to an experienced Grandmaster with many titles, Benjamin is in a unique position to highlight the major changes that have occurred both in US and international chess throughout the last four decades.



Pawn Power in Chess

Author : Hans Kmoch

Publisher : Courier Corporation

Page : 322 pages

File Size : 44,4 MB

Release : 2013-04-09

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 0486319695

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Book Description

Profoundly original book demonstrates how basic relationships of one or two pawns constitute winning strategy. Multitude of examples illustrate theory. 182 diagrams. Index of games.



LOGICAL CHESS

Author : Irving Chernev

Publisher : Touchstone

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 16,2 MB

Release : 1971-06-15

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 9780671211356

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From Simon & Schuster, Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained is Irving Chernev guide to beginners chess and the basic moves for every player to improve. In this much loved classic, Irving Chernev explains 33 complete games in detail, telling the reader the reason for every single move. Playing through these games and explanations gives a real insight into the power of the pieces and how to post them most effectively.



United States Chess Federation's Official Rules of Chess, Fifth Edition

Author : United States Chess Federation

Publisher : Random House Incorporated

Page : 409 pages

File Size : 30,46 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Games

ISBN : 0812935594

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Book Description

Explains all legal chess moves, and discusses the regulations governing tournaments, lifetime rankings, and tournament director certification.



The Art of Game Design

Author : Jesse Schell

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 522 pages

File Size : 26,77 MB

Release : 2008-08-04

Category : Art

ISBN : 0123694965

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Book Description

Anyone can master the fundamentals of game design - no technological expertise is necessary. The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses shows that the same basic principles of psychology that work for board games, card games and athletic games also are the keys to making top-quality videogames. Good game design happens when you view your game from many different perspectives, or lenses. While touring through the unusual territory that is game design, this book gives the reader one hundred of these lenses - one hundred sets of insightful questions to ask yourself that will help make your game better. These lenses are gathered from fields as diverse as psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathematics, writing, puzzle design, and anthropology. Anyone who reads this book will be inspired to become a better game designer - and will understand how to do it.



The Amateur's Mind

Author : Jeremy Silman

Publisher :

Page : 466 pages

File Size : 18,6 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN :

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This book takes the student on a journey through his own mind and returns him to the chess board with a wealth of new-found knowledge and the promise of a significant gain in strength. Most amateurs possess erroneous thinking processes that remain with them throughout their chess lives. These flaws in their mental armour result in stinging defeats and painful reversals. Books can be bought and studied, lessons can be taken -- but in the end, these elusive problems always prove to be extremely difficult to eradicate. Seeking a solution to this dilemma, the author wrote down the thoughts of his students while they played actual games, analysed them, and catalogued the most common misconceptions that arose. This second edition greatly expands on the information contained in the popular first edition.



The Evolution of Cooperation

Author : Robert Axelrod

Publisher : Basic Books

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 36,7 MB

Release : 2009-04-29

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0786734884

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A famed political scientist's classic argument for a more cooperative world We assume that, in a world ruled by natural selection, selfishness pays. So why cooperate? In The Evolution of Cooperation, political scientist Robert Axelrod seeks to answer this question. In 1980, he organized the famed Computer Prisoners Dilemma Tournament, which sought to find the optimal strategy for survival in a particular game. Over and over, the simplest strategy, a cooperative program called Tit for Tat, shut out the competition. In other words, cooperation, not unfettered competition, turns out to be our best chance for survival. A vital book for leaders and decision makers, The Evolution of Cooperation reveals how cooperative principles help us think better about everything from military strategy, to political elections, to family dynamics.



Man, Play, and Games

Author : Roger Caillois

Publisher : University of Illinois Press

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 13,78 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 9780252070334

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Book Description

According to Roger Caillois, play is an occasion of pure waste. In spite of this - or because of it - play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this study, the author defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from the rest of life.