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Players and Pawns: How Chess Builds Community and Culture.

Players and Pawns: How Chess Builds Community and Culture.

・ISBN 978-0-226-63986-4 paper US$ 26.00

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著者・編者Fine, Gary Alan,
出版社 (University of Chicago Press, US)
出版年月2019
ページ数288 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<A04-31798>

解説

A chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. In contrast, Gary Alan Fine argues that chess is a social duet: two players in silent dialogue who always take each other into account in their play. Surrounding that one-on-one contest is a community life that can be nearly as dramatic and intense as the across-the-board confrontation. Fine has spent years immersed in the communities of amateur and professional chess players, and with Players and Pawns he takes readers deep inside them, revealing a complex, brilliant, feisty world of commitment and conflict. Within their community, chess players find both support and challenges, all amid a shared interest in and love of the long-standing traditions of the game, traditions that help chess players build a communal identity.
Full of idiosyncratic characters and dramatic gameplay, Players and Pawns is a celebration of the fascinating world of serious chess.