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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

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