Players and pawns : how chess builds community and culture / Gary Alan Fine.
Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]Description: xiii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780226264981 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 794.101/9 23
- GV1448 .F55 2015
Contents:
Prologue: a tournament revealed -- Introduction: first moves -- The mind, the body, and the soul of chess -- Doing chess -- Temporal tapestries -- Shared pasts and sticky culture -- The worlds of chess -- Status games and soft community -- Chess in the world -- Conclusion: piece work.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: a tournament revealed -- Introduction: first moves -- The mind, the body, and the soul of chess -- Doing chess -- Temporal tapestries -- Shared pasts and sticky culture -- The worlds of chess -- Status games and soft community -- Chess in the world -- Conclusion: piece work.