Author: Philippe StammaPublisher:
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The Noble Game of Chess, Or, a New and Easy Method to Learn to Play Well in a Short Time ...
Author: Philippe StammaThe Noble Game of Chess
Author: Philip StammaThe Noble Game of Chess
Author: Philip StammaThe Noble Game of Chess; Or, a New and Easy Method to Learn to Play Well in a Short Time: ... By Philip Stamma, ...
Author: Philip StammaThe Noble Game of Chess;
Author: Philip Active 1737 StammaPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781013909238
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Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The Noble Game of Chess; Or, a New and Easy Method to Learn to Play Well in a Short Time
Author: PHILIP. STAMMAPublisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781379695929
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Languages : en
Pages : 218
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T056267 London: printed for J. Brindley, 1745. xxiv,74;[2],115, [1]p., fold.plate; 8°
The Noble Game of Chess Containing Rules and Instructions, for the Use of Those who Have Already a Little Knowledge of this Game
Author: Joseph BertinThe Immortal Game
Author: David ShenkPublisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385673787
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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A surprising, charming, and ever-fascinating history of the seemingly simple game that has had a profound effect on societies the world over. 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 black and white squares according to very simple rules, that has captivated people for nearly 1,500 years? Why has it driven some of its greatest players into paranoia and madness, and yet is hailed as a remarkably powerful intellectual tool? Nearly everyone has played chess at some point in their lives. Its rules and pieces have served as a metaphor for society, influencing military strategy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and literature and the arts. It has been condemned as the devil’s game by popes, rabbis, and imams, and lauded as a guide to proper living by other popes, rabbis, and imams. Marcel Duchamp was so absorbed in the game that he ignored his wife on their honeymoon. Caliph Muhammad al-Amin lost his throne (and his head) trying to checkmate a courtier. Ben Franklin used the game as a cover for secret diplomacy.In his wide-ranging and ever-fascinating examination of chess, David Shenk gleefully unearths the hidden history of a game that seems so simple yet contains infinity. From its invention somewhere in India around 500 A.D., to its enthusiastic adoption by the Persians and its spread by Islamic warriors, to its remarkable use as a moral guide in the Middle Ages and its political utility in the Enlightenment, to its crucial importance in the birth of cognitive science and its key role in the aesthetic of modernism in twentieth-century art, to its twenty-first-century importance in the development of artificial intelligence and use as a teaching tool in inner-city America, chess has been a remarkably omnipresent factor in the development of civilization. Indeed, as Shenk shows, some neuroscientists believe that playing chess may actually alter the structure of the brain, that it may be for individuals what it has been for civilization: a virus that makes us smarter.
The Noble Game of Chess
Author: Joseph BertinThe Noble Game of Chess, Containing Rules and Instructions for the Use of Those who Have Already a Little Knowledge of this Game, by Capt. Joseph Bertin
Author: Joseph Bertin (Capitaine.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 78
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