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.