| #1010676 in Books | 2005-04-26 | 2005-04-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.72 x5.31l,.64 | File Name: 0060090650 | 320 pages
||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Kindle version has no pictures|By Kindle Customer|The kindle version is missing all photographs so any pictorial representations of the discussed pieces and history are missing. The book is not the same without the illustrations.|1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A nice historical review of female monarchs throughout European histo|From Publishers Weekly|A senior scholar at Stanford's Institute for Women and Gender who has written extensively on women's history, Yalom (A History of the Wife; etc.) sees the rise of female power throughout the centuries reflected in the history of the chess
Everyone knows that the queen is the most dominant piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. It wasn't until chess became a popular pastime for European royals during the Middle Ages that the queen was born and was gradually empowered to become the king's fierce warrior and protector.
Birth of the Chess Queen examines the five centuries between the chess queen's timid emergence in the early days of th...
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You easily download any file type for your device.Birth of the Chess Queen: A History | Marilyn Yalom. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
