A cultural history of chess-players : minds, machines, and monsters /

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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, particu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sharples, John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Chess players > Social aspects > History.
Joueurs d'échecs > Aspect social > Histoire.
Social & Cultural History.
Sociology: Sport & Leisure.
GAMES > Board.
GAMES > Chess.
Chess players
Chess > Social aspects
animal.
automaton chess-player.
child prodigy.
detective fiction.
masculinities.
melancholic.
monstrosity.
monstrous bodies.
moralities.
sinner.
statuesque chess-player.
superhero.
transhuman.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and index.
ISBN:9781526120540
1526120542
9781526120557
1526120550

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