A cultural history of chess-players : minds, machines, and monsters /
Sharples, John,
A cultural history of chess-players : minds, machines, and monsters / John Sharples. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9781526120540 9781526120557
GBB7B6111 bnb GBC101643 bnb
018410589 Uk 020045369 Uk
Chess players--Social aspects--History.
Electronic Books.
GV1438 / .C858 2017
A cultural history of chess-players : minds, machines, and monsters / John Sharples. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9781526120540 9781526120557
GBB7B6111 bnb GBC101643 bnb
018410589 Uk 020045369 Uk
Chess players--Social aspects--History.
Electronic Books.
GV1438 / .C858 2017