John Sharples

A cultural history of chess-players

Minds, machines, and monsters

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 -- .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9781784994204
• ISBN-10: 1784994200
• Artikelnr.: 47878126

Autorenporträt

John Sharples is an independent historian

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'Of magic look and meaning': themes concerning the cultural chess
player Part I: Minds 1 Sinner, melancholic, and animal: three lives of the chess
player in medieval and early
modern literature 2 'A quiet game of chess?': respectability in urban and literary space 3 Elementary: the chess
player and literary
detective Part II: Machines 4 Future shocks: IBM's Deep Blue and the Automaton Chess
Player, 1997
1769 5 A haunted mind: Kasparov and the machines 6 'Everything was black': locating monstrosity in representations of the Automaton Chess
Player Part III: Monsters 7 Red, black, white, and blue: American monsters 8 Performance notes: absence and presence in Reykjavik, Iceland, 1972 9 Kapow!: the chess
player in comic
books, 1940
53 Epilogue: exploding heads and the death of the chess
player Index