Players and pawns : how chess builds community and culture /
Fine, Gary Alan,
Players and pawns : how chess builds community and culture / Gary Alan Fine. - xiii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
9780226264981 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2014033248
Chess--Psychological aspects.
Chess--Social aspects.
Chess--Tournaments.
GV1448 / .F55 2015
794.101/9
Players and pawns : how chess builds community and culture / Gary Alan Fine. - xiii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
9780226264981 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2014033248
Chess--Psychological aspects.
Chess--Social aspects.
Chess--Tournaments.
GV1448 / .F55 2015
794.101/9