Fifty Shades of Ray: Chess in the year of the Coronavirus Pandemic - Couverture souple

Keene OBE, Raymond

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1843822296 ISBN 13 : 9781843822295

Editeur : Hardinge Simpole Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

Inspired by both Daniel Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year' (1722) and 'The King', an anthology of the witty and provocative chess columns of the Dutch Grandmaster, Jan Hein Donner, Ray Keene here collects his thoughts and writings on the year 2020 - both in chess and the wider world. His reflections include the impact of Covid-19 on the popularity of chess, the remarkable influence of the Netflix series 'The Queen's Gambit', the growing army of teenage Grandmasters, the online pivot of chess competition and the emergence of chess entrepreneurs, such as World Champion Magnus Carlsen and Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura.. Like Donner, Ray uses chess as a metaphor for observations on art, culture and civilisation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Grandmaster Ray Keene OBE has enjoyed a career which spans many aspects of chess, including numerous victories in international competitions across five continents, organisation of three world chess championships involving Garry Kasparov, creation of the first ever world championship in any Mind Sport between a human and a computer (Dr Marion Tinsley v Chinook in draughts, London 1992) and the world record authorship of 204 books on Mind Sports, thinking and genius, with translations into sixteen different languages.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hardinge Simpole Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1843822296
• ISBN 13: 9781843822295
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 302
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• Personne responsable: non disponible