The Immortal Game: A History of Chess by David Shenk

The Immortal Game: A History of Chess

David Shenk

327 pages first pub 2006 (editions) user-added

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Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? What is it about its thirty-two figurative pieces, moving about its sixty-four bl...

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