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September 21, 2005
"The Chess Artist"
Chess is still the reigning champion for the most books written about any game or sport. Interesting fact isn't it? Unlike backgammon, checkers or boggle -- chess has that unique allure that fascinates readers to learn more about this wonderful game.
"The Chess Artist: Genius, Obsession, and the World's Oldest Game" written by J.C. Hallman is a book even a non-chessplayer can enjoy. In this extraordinary book, the author himself and the main character, Glenn Umstead, take us on a journey shock-full of oddities, anecdotes, flashbacks and flashforwards in an attempt to "explain" what is most attractive about this game.
And the answers don't come right away, but somewhere hidden between all 352 pages we find an amalgam of questions that reveal themselves within a windowless paradigm of obsession in a unique historical importance and perspective.
On the back the book states "this is a book that chess players should not be without." And rightly so.
Posted by rene on September 21, 2005 8:57 AM
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So is it of any interest to those of us for whom chess is an unsolveable puzzle with instructions written in ancient Mayan pictographs?
Posted by: eddie at September 22, 2005 6:08 PM
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