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Autore: | Solway David |
Titolo: | Chess pieces [[electronic resource] /] / David Solway |
Pubblicazione: | Montreal ; ; Ithaca [N.Y.], : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica: | 79 p |
Disciplina: | 811/.54 |
Soggetto topico: | Chess |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Chess pieces |
ISBN: | 1-283-53137-2 |
9786613843821 | |
0-7735-8480-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910790438103321 |
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