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A cultural history of chess-players : Minds, machines, and monsters / / John Sharples
| A cultural history of chess-players : Minds, machines, and monsters / / John Sharples |
| Autore | Sharples John |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, [Michigan] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Disciplina | 794.1092/2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Chess - Social aspects
Chess players |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-5261-2054-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480012703321 |
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| Manchester, [Michigan] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A cultural history of chess-players : Minds, machines, and monsters / / John Sharples
| A cultural history of chess-players : Minds, machines, and monsters / / John Sharples |
| Autore | Sharples John |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, [Michigan] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Disciplina | 794.1092/2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Chess - Social aspects
Chess players |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
animal
automaton chess-player child prodigy detective fiction masculinities melancholic monstrosity monstrous bodies moralities sinner statuesque chess-player superhero transhuman |
| ISBN |
1-5261-2055-0
1-5261-2054-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796388003321 |
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Sharples John
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| Manchester, [Michigan] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A cultural history of chess-players : Minds, machines, and monsters / / John Sharples
| A cultural history of chess-players : Minds, machines, and monsters / / John Sharples |
| Autore | Sharples John |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, [Michigan] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Disciplina | 794.1092/2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Chess - Social aspects
Chess players |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-5261-2055-0
1-5261-2054-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover -- A cultural history of chess-players -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: 'Of magic look and meaning': themes concerning the cultural chess-player -- Part I: Minds -- 1 Sinner, melancholic, and animal: three lives of the chess-player in medieval and early-modern literature -- 2 'A quiet game of chess?' Respectability in urban and literary space -- 3 Elementary: the chess-player and the literary detective -- Part II: Machines -- 4 Future shocks: IBM's Deep Blue and the Automaton Chess-Player, 1997-1769 -- 5 A haunted mind: Kasparov and the machines -- 6 'Everything was black': locating monstrosity in representations of the Automaton Chess-Player -- Part III: Monsters -- 7 Red, black, white, and blue: American monsters -- 8 Performance notes: absence and presence in Reykjavik, Iceland, 1972 -- 9 Kapow! The chess-player in comic-books, 1940-53 -- Epilogue: exploding heads and the death of the chess-player -- Select bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911097748203321 |
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Sharples John
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| Manchester, [Michigan] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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