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Author : Donald Boone
Publisher : Donald Loyd Boone
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1882896270
In this book you will read stories from the past. Historical knowledge is the basis for these tales. Stories about spies, the Evan’s Gambit, the Knight’s tour, and Napoleon Bonaparte. Over eighty stories in all. Each of some interest to the chess player.
Author : Donald L. Boone
Publisher :
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Chess players
ISBN : 9781882896103
Wherever chess players gather, whether in a private home, or any chess club, you will hear stories being told, and many are even true. This new revised edition of, 'Chess Stories Through The Ages, ' contains stories that have been passed from one generation to the next down through history. As to their authenticy, I can only guess. Even if they are embellished, or exaggerated to some extent, they are still good stories. These stories are about chess, and those who play the game and that I feel, are easily told and remembered
Author : Jerzy Giżycki
Publisher : London : Abbey Library
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Chess
ISBN :
Chess in Britain - Chess and machines - Chess in poetry and prose - Chess and mathematicscs _
Author : Andres D. Hortilosa
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 2010-01-10
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781857446180
In this original and thought-provoking book, Andres D. Hortillosa explains his ever-evolving system of chess improvement. If you are serious about improving your chess this book is for you.
Author : Jean-Louis Cazaux
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0786494271
With more than 400 illustrations, and detailed maps, this immense and deeply researched account of the history of chess covers not only the modern international game, derived from Persian and Arab roots, but a broad spectrum of variants going back 1500 years, some of which are still played in various parts of the world. The evolution of strategic board games, especially in India, China and Japan, is discussed in detail. Many more recent chess variants (board sizes, new pieces, 3-D, etc.) are fully covered. Instructions for play are provided, with historical context, for every game presented.
Author : H. E. Bird
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,58 MB
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This historical work presents a concise record of the evolution of chess. The book covers everything from the ancient roots of the game, starting from India, Persia (Iraq) and China to the 1880s, including mentions in the poetry of the Middle Ages. The book's author, H.E. Bird, was an extraordinary chess player with an opening named for him and was also considered a historian of chess origins. In this work, he delivered authentic information about chess from his 19th Century point of view. Bird precisely tracks the changes in the game into the final modifications in the mid 15th century and then looks at the rise of interest in chess in England. He also provides some valuable insights about Phiidor, LaBourdonnais, and many other chief personalities in chess from the middle to late 1800s. This well-written account of the history of chess holds the attention of every reader throughout and is of special interest to all chess enthusiasts.
Author : H. J. R. Murray
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 877 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN :
History of Chess by H. J. R. Murray is widely regarded as the most authoritative and most comprehensive history of the game. Murray's aim is threefold: to present as complete a record as is possible of the varieties of chess that exist or have existed in different parts of the world; to investigate the ultimate origin of these games and the circumstances of the invention of chess; and to trace the development of the modern European game from the first appearance of its ancestor, the Indian chaturanga, in the beginning of the 7th century. The first part of the book describes the history of the Asiatic varieties of chess, the Arabic and Persian literature on chess, and the theory and practice of the game of shatranj. The second part is concerned with chess in Europe in the Middle Ages, its role in literature and in the moralities, and with medieval chess problems, leading up to the beginning of modern chess and the history of the modern game through to the 19th century.
Author : Henry Bird
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN :
Chess Throughout the Ages is a book about the history if chess by English chess player Henry Bird. The author's goal is to trace the ancient origins of the game of chess, beginning with what is known from India, Persia and China. He tracks the changes that happened in the game of chess into the final modifications in the mid-15th century and surveys the rise of interest in chess in England and other parts of the world. The book provides a historical look at some of the earliest games notated.
Author : Jenny Adams
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812201043
The game of chess reached western Europe by the year 1000, and within several generations it had become one of the most popular pastimes ever. Both men and women, and even priests played the game despite the Catholic Church's repeated prohibitions. Characters in countless romances, chansons de geste, and moral tales of the eleventh through twelfth centuries also played chess, which often symbolized romantic attraction or sexual consummation. In Power Play, Jenny Adams looks to medieval literary representations to ask what they can tell us both about the ways the game changed as it was naturalized in the West and about the society these changes reflected. In its Western form, chess featured a queen rather than a counselor, a judge or bishop rather than an elephant, a knight rather than a horse; in some manifestations, even the pawns were differentiated into artisans, farmers, and tradespeople with discrete identities. Power Play is the first book to ask why chess became so popular so quickly, why its pieces were altered, and what the consequences of these changes were. More than pleasure was at stake, Adams contends. As allegorists and political theorists connected the moves of the pieces to their real-life counterparts, chess took on important symbolic power. For these writers and others, the game provided a means to figure both human interactions and institutions, to envision a civic order not necessarily dominated by a king, and to imagine a society whose members acted in concert, bound together by contractual and economic ties. The pieces on the chessboard were more than subjects; they were individuals, playing by the rules.
Author : Daniel E. O'Sullivan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110288818
The game of chess was wildly popular in the Middle Ages, so much so that it became an important thought paradigm for thinkers and writers who utilized its vocabulary and imagery for commentaries on war, politics, love, and the social order. In this collection of essays, scholars investigate chess texts from numerous traditions – English, French, German, Latin, Persian, Spanish, Swedish, and Catalan – and argue that knowledge of chess is essential to understanding medieval culture. Such knowledge, however, cannot rely on the modern game, for today’s rules were not developed until the late fifteenth century. Only through familiarity with earlier incarnations of the game can one fully appreciate the full import of chess to medieval society. The careful scholarship contained in this volume provides not only insight into the significance of chess in medieval European culture but also opens up avenues of inquiry for future work in this rich field.