A cultural history of chess-players : Minds, machines, and monsters /: Minds, machines, and monsters. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• 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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