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The Immortal Game

The Immortal Game( )
Author: Shenk, David
ISBN:978-0-285-64000-9
Publication Date:Jan 2011
Publisher:Souvenir Press Limited
Book Format:Ebook
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David Shenk surveys the history of chess, capturing the Zelig-like nature of the game that has changed the societies that have played it. It's rules and pieces have served as a metaphor for society (to be found in the writings of Borges, Nabokov, Tolstoy, Canetti, Eliot), it has helped to form the military strategies that conquered civilisations, influenced the mathematical understandings that have driven technological change and served as a moral guide. It has been condemned by...
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Pages:352
Author Biography
Shenk, David (Author)
David Shenk a former fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University, he has written for Harper's Wired, Salon, The New Republic, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker, and is an occasional commentator for NPR's "All Things Considered". He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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