Author : Daniel Johnson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 22,10 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780547133379
Daniel Johnson--journalist, scholar, and chess enthusiast--is the perfect guide to one of history's most remarkable periods, when chess matches were front-page news and captured the world's imagination.
Author : William Caxton
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 10,85 MB
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1580444431
Despite its title, Caxton's Game and Playe of the Chesse does not, in fact, have much to say about a game or about playing it ... Instead, the work uses the chessboard and its pieces to allegorize a political community whose citizens contribute to the common good. Readers first meet the king, queen, bishops (imagined as judges), knights, and rooks, here depicted as the king's emissaries. They are then introduced to the eight different pawns, who represent trades that range from farmers to messengers ... Paired with each profession is a list of moral codes ... These pairings reinforce the idea of a kingdom organized around professional ties and associations, ties that are in turn regulated by moral law. - from the Introduction
Author : Gary Alan Fine
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,12 MB
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 022626503X
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.
Author : Thomas Middleton
Publisher : Hill & Wang
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Author : Raoul Lefèvre
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Troy (Extinct city)
ISBN :
Author : Harold James Ruthven Murray
Publisher :
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Chess
ISBN :
Author : David H. Caldwell
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Chessmen
ISBN : 9781905267941
This book was written to accompany a travelling exhibition about new research on the Lewis chessmen. National Museums Scotland and the British Museum partnered in creating the exhibition, The Lewis Chessmen: Unmasked.
Author : Prof. Robert R. Desjarlais
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520948203
"Chess gets a hold of some people, like a virus or a drug," writes Robert Desjarlais in this absorbing book. Drawing on his lifelong fascination with the game, Desjarlais guides readers into the world of twenty-first-century chess to help us understand its unique pleasures and challenges, and to advance a new "anthropology of passion." Immersing us directly in chess’s intricate culture, he interweaves small dramas, closely observed details, illuminating insights, colorful anecdotes, and unforgettable biographical sketches to elucidate the game and to reveal what goes on in the minds of experienced players when they face off over the board. Counterplay offers a compelling take on the intrigues of chess and shows how themes of play, beauty, competition, addiction, fanciful cognition, and intersubjective engagement shape the lives of those who take up this most captivating of games.
Author : William Caxton
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 2024-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385545595
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author : Marissa Mullen
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0593157591
WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • A how-to guide for crafting beautiful and delicious cheese boards for entertaining and self-care, from the creator of the Cheese by Numbers method and the Instagram phenomenon That Cheese Plate “[Marissa Mullen] takes the guesswork out of the coolest, most solid thing to bring to any party or potluck: the cheese platter.”—Rachael Ray With her gorgeous, showstopping cheese and charcuterie boards, Marissa Mullen takes cheese to a whole new level. Her simple, step-by-step Cheese by Numbers method breaks the cheese plate down into its basic components—cheese, meat, produce, crunch, dip, garnish—allowing you to create stunning spreads for any occasion. This beautifully designed book goes beyond preparation techniques. According to Mullen, cheese plates can be an important form of artistic self-care, like flower arranging or meditative coloring books—but you can eat the results! That Cheese Plate Will Change Your Life celebrates the ways in which cheese brings people together, and how crafting a cheese plate can be a calming, creativity-bolstering act. With fifty exquisite, easy-to-make cheese and charcuterie plates, this book will teach you how to relax, enjoy, and indulge— to find your cheesy bliss.
