Players and Pawns: How Chess Builds Community and Culture Fine Gary Alan
Players and Pawns: How Chess Builds Community and Culture Fine Gary Alan A chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. Surrounding…
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Players and Pawns: How Chess Builds Community and Culture Fine Gary Alan
A chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. Surrounding that one-on-one contest is a community life that can be nearly as dramatic and intense as the across-the-board confrontation. In contrast, Gary Alan Fine argues that chess is a social duet: two players in silent dialogue who always take each other into account in their play.
Within their community, chess players find both support and challenges, all amid a shared interest in and love of the long-standing traditions of the game, traditions that help chess players build a communal identity.Full of idiosyncratic characters and Fine has spent years immersed in the communities of amateur and professional chess players, and with Players and Pawns he takes readers deep inside them, revealing a complex, brilliant, feisty world of commitment and conflict.