The Chess Players
Author: Frances Parkinson Keyes
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9780855946548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the life of Paul Morphy.
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Author: Frances Parkinson Keyes
Publisher:
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9780855946548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the life of Paul Morphy.
Author: James Eade
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
Published: 2021-06-15
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781438089423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Reuben Fine
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Published: 2009-08-01
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9784871878159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr. Fine, both a pyschoanalyst and a great chess player of the 20th century, analyzes what sets chess champions apart.
Author: Jaan Ehlvest
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Published: 2004-12-30
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780976389101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frances Parkinson Keyes
Publisher: Ishi Press
Published: 2015-01-25
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9784871874175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Chess Players is a historical novel based on the life of Paul Morphy, who is considered to have been the world chess champion and possibly the greatest chess player in the history of the game. However, this is not a book about the game of chess. There are no chess diagrams in this book, no moves, no positions, no opening traps or tricks on how to catch an unwary opponent. Rather, this book is about the players, the people who play chess. It was a popular book when it came out in 1960, spending several weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers List. Paul Charles Morphy was born on June 22, 1837 in New Orleans Louisiana. He learned the moves of chess simply by watching his uncle and father play. Nobody taught him the rules. By age 9 he was regarded as the best player in New Orleans. By age 21 he was regarded as the best chess player in the world. But then he quit chess and never played a serious game again. Ever since, players have wondered what ever happened to Paul Morphy. This book by Frances Parkinson Keyes is historical fiction. However, she went to great lengths to research her subject matter and ensure the historical, geographical, linguistic and even scientific accuracy of her writings. In 1959, while writing this book, she contacted David Lawson, who was recearching the Life of Paul Morphy. Lawson had been researching the Life of Morphy since 1938. Finally, in 1976, Lawson published Paul Morphy: Pride and Sorrow of Chess, the best biography of Morphy and the book Lawson had been working on for 38 years. Lawson was 89 years old when the book came out.
Author: Howard Staunton
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Published: 1849
Total Pages: 532
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Sharples
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2017-08-15
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1526120550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Howard Staunton
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 156
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Published: 1841
Total Pages: 468
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