Counterplay
an anthropologist at the chessboard
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Author
Publication
2011 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California
Language
English
Word Count
66,500 words, Guess
Page Count
266 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecounterplayanthr00desj
- ISBN-139780520267398
- ISBN-100520267397
- Library of Congress Control Number2010026534
- OCLC Control Number644150071
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780520267398
- Open LibraryOL24539401M
Classifications
- DDC794.1
- LCCGV1314.7 .D47 2011
- LCCGV1314.7.D47 2011
Description
This book explores twenty-first-century chess showing its unique pleasures and challenges, and advancing a new "anthropology of passion." Immersing us directly in chess's intricate culture, the author interweaves small dramas, closely observed details, illuminating insights, colorful anecdotes, and 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. It offers a 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.
Other Editions
- Counterplay: an anthropologist at the chessboard
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