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The Chess Artist: Genius, Obsession, and the World's Oldest Game
J. C. Hallman
The Chess Artist is both an intellectual journey and first-rate travel writing dedicated to the love of chess and all of its related oddities, writer and chess enthusiast J. C. Hallman explores the obsessive hold chess exerts on its followers by examining the history and evolution of the game and the people who dedicate their lives to it. Together with his friend Glenn Umstead, an African-American chessmaster who is arguably as chess obsessed as Ilyumzhinov, Hallman tours New York City's legendary chess district, crashes a Princeton Math Department game party, challenges a convicted murderer to a chess match in prison, and travels to Kalmykia, where they are confronted with members of the Russian intelligence service, beautiful translators who may be spies, seven-year-old chess prodigies, and the sad blight of a land struggling toward capitalism.
In the tradition of The Professor and the Madman, Longitude, and The Orchid Thief, Hallman transforms an obsessive quest for obscure things into a compulsively readable and entertaining weaving of travelogue, journalism, and chess history.
hardcover, 352 pgs, illustrated
$25.95
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Deep Blue
Monty Newborn, Charles E. Lieserson, Monroe Newborn
This book offers a detailed account of IBM's Deep Blue chess program, the people who created it, and its historic battles with... [read more]
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The Art of Chess
Colleen Schafroth
Not your typical chess history book, the author explores the history surrounding chess sets and pieces, more than the development of the... [read more]
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