(Read ebook) The Chess Artist: Genius, Obsession, and the World's Oldest Game
♛ J. C. Hallman ♛
| #2004322 in Books | 2004-11-14 | 2004-10-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.78 x5.50l,1.05 | File Name: 031233396X | 352 pages | ISBN13: 9780312333966 | Condition: New | Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Great use of language. Rather depressing tone.|By Prof. Centennius|J. C. Hallman's study of chess and the people who play it is part travelogue, part history, part psychological analysis,and altogether an essay containing beautiful language and depressing descriptions of those he meets and what he sees. Most of the book concerns a trip he takes to Kalmykia with Glenn, a Afr|From Publishers Weekly|During a postcollege stint as a blackjack dealer in Atlantic City, freelance writer Hallman discovered the chess community that thrives in dealer lounges. There he met 39-year-old chess master Glenn Umstead, who performed exhibitions whil
In the tiny Russian province of Kalmykia, obsession with chess has reached new heights. Its leader, a charismatic and eccentric millionaire/ex--car salesman named Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, is a former chess prodigy and the most recent president of FIDE, the world's controlling chess body. Despite credible allegations of his involvement in drug running, embezzlement, and murder, the impoverished Kalmykian people have rallied around their leader's obsession---chess is played...
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