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Immortal Game: A History of Chess [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 352 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 203x130x20 mm, weight: 278 g, ILUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT
  • Išleidimo metai: 02-Oct-2007
  • Leidėjas: Anchor Books
  • ISBN-10: 1400034086
  • ISBN-13: 9781400034086
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 352 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 203x130x20 mm, weight: 278 g, ILUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT
  • Išleidimo metai: 02-Oct-2007
  • Leidėjas: Anchor Books
  • ISBN-10: 1400034086
  • ISBN-13: 9781400034086
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A fascinating history of chess explains how the game, its rules, and its pieces have had a profound influence on military strategy, literature, the arts, mathematics, the development of artificial intelligence, and other fields, from its origins in India around A.D. 500 to the present day. Reprint.
Prologue Introduction XV
Pieces and Moves 9
I. OPENINGS
(Where We Come From)
1. "UNDERSTANDING IS THE ESSENTIAL WEAPON"
13
Chess and Our Origins
THE IMMORTAL GAME: MOVE 1
21
2. HOUSE OF WISDOM
29
Chess and the Muslim Renaissance
HE IMMORTAL GAME: MOVE 2
39
3. THE MORALS OF NIIN AND THE DUTIES OF NOBLES AND COMMONERS
43
Chess and Medieval obligation
THE IMMORTAL GAME: MOVE 3
60
4. MAKING MEN CIRCUMSPECT
65
Modern Chess, the Accumulation of Knowledge, and the March to Infinity
THE IMMORTAL GAME: MOVES 4 AND 5
76
II. MIDDLEGAME
(Who We Are)
5. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S OPERA
87
Chess and the Enlightenment
THE IMMORTAL GAME: MOVES 6 AND 7
99
6. TILE EMPEROR AND THE IMMIGRANT
107
Chess and the Unexpected Gifts of War
THE IMMORTAL GAME: MOVES 8 AND 9
117
7. CHUNKING AND TASKING
123
Chess and the Working Mind
THE IMMORTAL GAME: MOVES 10 AND 11
134
8. "INTO ITS VERTIGINOUS DEPTHS'
141
Chess and the Shattered Mind
THE IMMORTAL GAME: MOVES 12 16
151
9. A VICTORIOUS SYNTHESIS
163
Chess and Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century
THE IMMORTAL GAME: MOVES 17-19
178
10. BEAUTIFUL PROBLEMS
185
Chess and Modernity
THE IMMORTAL GAME: MOVES 20 AND 21
193
III. ENDGAME
(Where We Are Going)
11. "WE ARE SHARING OUR WORLD WITH ANOTHER SPECIES, ONE THAT GETS SMARTER AND MORE INDEPENDENT EVERY YEAR"
199
Chess and the New Machine Intelligence
THE IMMORTAL GAME: MOVES 22 AND 23 (CHECKMATE)
222
12. THE NEXT WAR
227
Chess and the Future of Human Intelligence
Coda 239
Acknowledgments 241
APPENDIX I The Rules of Chess 245
APPENDIX II The Immortal Game (Recap) and Five Other Great Gaines from History 255
APPENDIX III Benjamin Franklin's "The Morals of Chess" 281
Sources and Notes 287
Index 315