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A Cultural History of Chess-Players: Minds, Machines, and Monsters John Sharples
A Cultural History of Chess-Players: Minds, Machines, and Monsters
John Sharples
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 -- .
240 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 15, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781784994204 |
| Publishers | Manchester University Press |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 241 × 164 × 23 mm · 518 g |
| Language | English |