Counterplay [[electronic resource] ] : an anthropologist at the chessboard / / Robert Desjarlais
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| Autore: |
Desjarlais Robert R
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| Titolo: |
Counterplay [[electronic resource] ] : an anthropologist at the chessboard / / Robert Desjarlais
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (261 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 794.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Chess - Philosophy |
| Chess players - Psychology | |
| Anthropology - Philosophy | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | 21st century chess |
| anecdotes | |
| anthropologists | |
| anthropology of games | |
| anthropology | |
| biographical sketches | |
| chess aficionados | |
| chess culture | |
| chess historians | |
| chess lovers | |
| chess players | |
| chess strategies | |
| chess | |
| competition | |
| cultural context | |
| discussion books | |
| ethnographers | |
| ethnography | |
| game historians | |
| games | |
| intersubjectivity | |
| mental exercise | |
| mind games | |
| nonfiction | |
| popular games | |
| psychology | |
| strategy games | |
| themes of play | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Blitzkrieg Bop -- 2. Notes on a Swindle -- 3. Psych-Out -- 4. Sveshnikov Intrigues -- 5. Son of Sorrow -- 6. Ambivalence -- 7. Cyberchess -- 8. 24/7 on the ICC -- Endgame -- Appendix 1. Note on Chess Annotation -- Appendix 2. " Life is touch-move" -- Notes -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "Chess gets a hold of some people, like a virus or a drug," writes Robert Desjarlais in this absorbing book. Drawing on his lifelong fascination with the game, Desjarlais guides readers into the world of twenty-first-century chess to help us understand its unique pleasures and challenges, and to advance a new "anthropology of passion." Immersing us directly in chess's intricate culture, he interweaves small dramas, closely observed details, illuminating insights, colorful anecdotes, and unforgettable biographical sketches to elucidate the game and to reveal what goes on in the minds of experienced players when they face off over the board. Counterplay offers a compelling take on the intrigues of chess and shows how themes of play, beauty, competition, addiction, fanciful cognition, and intersubjective engagement shape the lives of those who take up this most captivating of games. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Counterplay |
| ISBN: | 1-283-27747-6 |
| 9786613277473 | |
| 0-520-94820-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910791559703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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