LEADER 02767oam 22006374a 450 001 9910817314603321 005 20191222111305.0 010 $a1-5261-2055-0 010 $a1-5261-2054-2 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526120540 035 $a(CKB)3790000000540119 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5188151 035 $a(OCoLC)1132662323 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse77836 035 $a(DE-B1597)659778 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526120540 035 $a(EXLCZ)993790000000540119 100 $a20180424h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 12$aA cultural history of chess-players$eMinds, machines, and monsters /$fJohn Sharples 210 1$aManchester, [Michigan] :$cManchester University Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (225 pages) 311 $a1-78499-420-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and index. 330 $aThis inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player. It takes as its premise the idea that the chess-player has become a fragmented collection of images, underpinned by challenges to, and confirmations of, chess's status as an intellectually-superior and socially-useful game, particularly since the medieval period. Yet, the chess-player is an understudied figure. No previous work has shone a light on the chess-player itself. Increasingly, chess-histories have retreated into tidy consensus. This work aspires to a novel reading of the figure as both a flickering beacon of reason and a sign of monstrosity. To this end, this book, utilising a wide range of sources, including newspapers, periodicals, detective novels, science-fiction, and comic-books, is underpinned by the idea that the chess-player is a pluralistic subject used to articulate a number of anxieties pertaining to themes of mind, machine, and monster. 606 $aChess$xSocial aspects 606 $aChess players$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aanimal. 610 $aautomaton chess-player. 610 $achild prodigy. 610 $adetective fiction. 610 $amasculinities. 610 $amelancholic. 610 $amonstrosity. 610 $amonstrous bodies. 610 $amoralities. 610 $asinner. 610 $astatuesque chess-player. 610 $asuperhero. 610 $atranshuman. 615 0$aChess$xSocial aspects 615 0$aChess players 676 $a794.1092/2 700 $aSharples$b John$01617977 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817314603321 996 $aA cultural history of chess-players$93949418 997 $aUNINA