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Counterplay: An Anthropologist at the Chessboard

Counterplay: An Anthropologist at the Chessboard

Desjarlais, Robert R.

Paperback

AnthropologyChess

ISBN10: 0520272609
ISBN13: 9780520272606
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Mar 22 2011
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
Chess gets a hold of some people, like a virus or a drug, writes Robert Desjarlais in this absorbing book. Drawing on his lifelong fascination with the game, Desjarlais guides readers into the world of twenty-first-century chess to help us understand its unique pleasures and challenges, and to advance a new anthropology of passion. Immersing us directly in chess's intricate culture, he interweaves small dramas, closely observed details, illuminating insights, colorful anecdotes, and unforgettable biographical sketches to elucidate the game and to reveal what goes on in the minds of experienced players when they face off over the board. Counterplay offers a compelling take on the intrigues of chess and shows how themes of play, beauty, competition, addiction, fanciful cognition, and intersubjective engagement shape the lives of those who take up this most captivating of games.

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