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- Title Players and Pawns: How Chess Builds Community and Culture
- Author Gary Alan Fine
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date 2015
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226264981 / 022626498X
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.19 x 6.33 x 0.82 in (23.34 x 16.08 x 2.08 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Chess - Tournaments, Chess - Psychological aspects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014033248
- Dewey Decimal Code 794.101
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- Choice, 02/01/2016, Page 0
- Library Journal, 06/01/2015, Page 106
- Publishers Weekly, 05/11/2015, Page 0
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Hardback. New. A chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. In contrast, Gary Alan Fine argues that chess is a social duet: two players in silent dialogue who always take each other into account in their play. Surrounding that one-on-one contest is a community life that can be nearly as dramatic and intense as the across-the-board confrontation. Fine has spent years immersed in the communities of amateur and professional chess players, and with Players and Pawns he takes readers deep inside them, revealing a complex, brilliant, feisty world of commitment and conflict. Opening with a close look at a typical tournament in Atlantic City, Fine carries us from planning and setup through the climactic final day's match-ups between the weekend's top players, introducing us along the way to countless players and their relationships to the game. At tournaments like that one, as well as in locales as diverse as collegiate matches and…
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