Chess pieces [[electronic resource] /] / David Solway

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790438103321
• Autore: Solway David
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal ; ; Ithaca [N.Y.], : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999
• ISBN: 1-283-53137-2; 9786613843821; 0-7735-8480-3
• Descrizione fisica: 79 p
• Collana: Hugh MacLennan poetry series
• Disciplina: 811/.54
• Soggetti: Chess
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Poems.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- The Chess Clock -- The Powers of the Pawn -- A Counter-Truth -- Handling the Chess Pieces -- Bishop to King -- Persians at Chess -- My Mother’s Chess -- King to Queen -- The Tournament -- The Last Move: In Memoriam -- The Catch -- The Games -- For Garry Kasparov -- Deep Blue’s Downfall -- Writers on Chess: A Conversation -- The Players -- Tristan -- The Master -- King and Queen -- Reminiscence of an Amateur -- The Nimzovitch -- Mr. Palomar at the Chessboard -- Greek Chess -- Allegory -- My Son at Chess -- My Own Chess -- Pawns and Pieces -- Ferdinand and Miranda Discovered Playing Chess -- My Game with Robert Hübner -- My Game with a Friend -- Perpetual Check -- Wittgenstein at Chess -- Carving the Pieces -- Portraits -- My Daughter at Chess -- The Next Crusade -- Dream of a Chess Man -- The Pin -- Endgame -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: But never underestimate the powers of the pawn who can promote into a queen and put a kingdom on, or moving humbly up the board, killing on the side, outpriest the priest, and leave the knight without a horse to ride, and trip the elevated rook to bring it crashing down, and nudge the misanthropic queen into oblivion, and stop before great Caesar's throne, a tiny regicide, and watch a cornered monarch fall, and ponder how he died. --from The Powers of the Pawn