A cultural history of chess-players : Minds, machines, and monsters /: Minds, machines, and monsters. (2017)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- A cultural history of chess-players : Minds, machines, and monsters /: Minds, machines, and monsters. (2017)
- Main Title:
- A cultural history of chess-players : Minds, machines, and monsters
- Further Information:
- Note: John Sharples.
- Authors:
- Sharples, John
- Other Names:
- Project Muse.
- Contents:
- Introduction: ‘Of magic look and meaning’: themes concerning the cultural chess-playerPart I: Minds 1 Sinner, melancholic, and animal: three lives of the chess-player in medieval and early-modern literature2 ‘A quiet game of chess?’: respectability in urban and literary space3 Elementary: the chess-player and literary-detectivePart II: Machines 4 Future shocks: IBM’s Deep Blue and the Automaton Chess-Player, 1997-17695 A haunted mind: Kasparov and the machines6 ‘Everything was black’: locating monstrosity in representations of the Automaton Chess-PlayerPart III: Monsters 7 Red, black, white, and blue: American monsters8 Performance notes: absence and presence in Reykjavik, Iceland, 19729 Kapow!: the chess-player in comic-books, 1940-53Epilogue: exploding heads and the death of the chess-playerIndex
- Publisher Details:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- Subjects:
- 794.10922
Chess -- Social aspects
Chess players -- Biography
Chess players
Chess -- Social aspects
Electronic books
Biographies - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781526120540
1526120542 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781784994204
1784994200 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and index.
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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