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Informationen zum Autor John Sharples is an independent historian Klappentext This inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player. It takes as its premise the idea that the chess-player has become a fragmented collection of images, underpinned by challenges to, and confirmations of, chess's status as an intellectually-superior and socially-useful game, particularly since the medieval period Zusammenfassung This inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player. It takes as its premise the idea that the chess-player has become a fragmented collection of images, underpinned by challenges to, and confirmations of, chess’s status as an intellectually-superior and socially-useful game, particularly since the medieval period -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 'Of magic look and meaning': themes concerning the cultural chess-player Part I: Minds 1 Sinner, melancholic, and animal: three lives of the chess-player in medieval and early-modern literature2 'A quiet game of chess?': respectability in urban and literary space3 Elementary: the chess-player and literary-detective Part II: Machines 4 Future shocks: IBM's Deep Blue and the Automaton Chess-Player, 1997-17695 A haunted mind: Kasparov and the machines6 'Everything was black': locating monstrosity in representations of the Automaton Chess-Player Part III: Monsters 7 Red, black, white, and blue: American monsters8 Performance notes: absence and presence in Reykjavik, Iceland, 19729 Kapow!: the chess-player in comic-books, 1940-53Epilogue: exploding heads and the death of the chess-playerIndex
