Chess Players
From Charlie Chaplin to Wu-Tang Clan
$43.78
- Hardcover
196 pages
- Release Date
25 November 2024
Summary
An incredible collection of images of chess players from the last 130 years, showcasing the unique relationship between chess and culture, featuring world famous actors, artists, politicians and musicians.
You don’t have to play chess to appreciate Chess Players: from Charlie Chaplin to Wu-Tang Clan, but as Martin Amis asks in his illuminating essay: What are they playing at?’
These evocative photographs transcend the chessboard, spanning 130 years - …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781739887865 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1739887867 |
| Author: | Dylan Loeb McClain, Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell, Martin Amis, Viswanathan Anand, FUEL |
| Publisher: | FUEL Publishing |
| Imprint: | FUEL Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 196 |
| Release Date: | 25 November 2024 |
| Weight: | 822g |
Critics Review
An incredible collection of photographs documenting the intersection between chess and culture.–Sarah Gilbert “The Guardian”
Dylan Loeb McClain
Compiled and Edited by
Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell
Publishing critically acclaimed books on design and architecture since 2004. They also published Masterworks: Rare and Beautiful Chess Sets of the World (2016).
Introduction and Image Captions by
Dylan Loeb McClain
Former chess columnist for The New York Times, FIDE master.
Essay by
Martin Amis (1949-2023)
Novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience (2000) and was twice listed for the Booker Prize.
Foreword by
Viswanathan Anand
Unarguably one of the greatest chess players in history. Five times winner of the classical world championship as well as the rapid and blitz world championships, he was ranked No. 1 in the world for 21 months, remaining among the world’s top-10 players for more than 30 years—an almost unmatched feat. These achievements have earned him some of India’s highest honors, including the Khel Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan awards. In a sports-mad nation of 1.4 billion people, he is among the country’s best-known figures.
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