Players and Pawns

How Chess Builds Community and Culture

Gary Alan Fine (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2019
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-63986-4 (ISBN)

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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. Within their 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.
Full of idiosyncratic characters and dramatic gameplay, Players and Pawns is a celebration of the fascinating world of serious chess.

Gary Alan Fine is professor of sociology at Northwestern University and the author of numerous books.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.05.2019
Sprache	englisch
Maße	15 x 23 mm
Gewicht	425 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-226-63986-X / 022663986X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-63986-4 / 9780226639864
Zustand	Neuware