Cultural history of chess-players, a: minds, machines, and monsters
Auteur :
Sharples, John
Éditeur :
Manchester University Press
ISBN :
9781784994204
Date de publication :
15 août 2017
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 x 1,4 cm
Poids :
517 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player. It takes as its premise the idea that the chess-player has become a fragmented collection of images, underpinned by challenges to, and confirmations of, chess’s status as an intellectually-superior and socially-useful game, particularly since the medieval period -- .