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Players and pawns : how chess builds community and culture / Gary Alan Fine.

By: Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]Description: xiii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226264981 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 794.101/9 23
LOC classification:
  • 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks GV1448 .F55 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001361897

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.

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