[PDF] The Game And Playe Of The Chesse eBook

Author : William Caxton
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1580444431

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Despite its title, Caxton's Game and Playe of the Chesse does not, in fact, have much to say about a game or about playing it ... Instead, the work uses the chessboard and its pieces to allegorize a political community whose citizens contribute to the common good. Readers first meet the king, queen, bishops (imagined as judges), knights, and rooks, here depicted as the king's emissaries. They are then introduced to the eight different pawns, who represent trades that range from farmers to messengers ... Paired with each profession is a list of moral codes ... These pairings reinforce the idea of a kingdom organized around professional ties and associations, ties that are in turn regulated by moral law. - from the Introduction

Author : Daniel Johnson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780547133379

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Daniel Johnson--journalist, scholar, and chess enthusiast--is the perfect guide to one of history's most remarkable periods, when chess matches were front-page news and captured the world's imagination.

Author : Gary Alan Fine
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 022626498X

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A chess match seems about as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. But is this the case? Inevitably these two minds are in dialogue, and perhaps might be better understood as partners in play. And surrounding that one-on-one contest is a community life that can be as dramatic and intense as the across-the-board confrontation. Gary Alan Fine has spent years immersed in several communities of amateur and professional chess players--children and adults--and in Players and Pawns he takes readers deep inside these worlds, revealing a complex, brilliant, feisty world of commitment and conflict. Opening with a close look at a routine, yet financially troubled, 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 cash games in Manhattan's Washington Square Park, players find themselves part of what Fine terms a soft community, an open, welcoming space built on their shared commitment to the game. Within that community, chess players find both support and challenges, all amid a shared interest in and love of the long-standing traditions of the game, traditions that help chess players build a communal identity.

Author : William Caxton
Publisher : Hansebooks
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2021-04-05
Category :
ISBN : 9783337547493

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Game and Playe of the Chesse - A Verbatim Reprint of the First Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition . Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Author : David H. Caldwell
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Chessmen
ISBN : 9781905267941

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This book was written to accompany a travelling exhibition about new research on the Lewis chessmen. National Museums Scotland and the British Museum partnered in creating the exhibition, The Lewis Chessmen: Unmasked.