The immortal game : a history of chess, or how 32 carved pieces on a board illuminated our understanding of war, art, science, and the human brain / David Shenk.
Prologue -- Introduction -- Pieces and moves -- "Understanding is the essential weapon", chess and our origins -- The immortal game: move 1 -- House of wisdom, chess and Muslim renaissance -- The immortal game: move 2 -- The morals of men and the duties of nobles and commoners, chess and medieval obligation -- The immortal game: move 3 -- Making men circumspect, modern chess, the accumulation of knowledge, and the march to infinity -- The immortal game: moves 4 and 5 -- Benjamin Franklin's opera, chess and the Enlightenment -- The immortal game: moves 6 and 7 -- The emperor and the immigrant, chess and the unexpected gifts of war -- The immortal game: moves 8 and 9 -- Chunking and tasking, chess and the working mind -- The immortal game: moves 10 and 11 -- "Into its vertiginous depths", chess and the shattered mind -- The immortal game: moves 12-16 -- A victorious synthesis, chess and totalitarianism in the twentieth century -- The immortal game: moves 17-19 -- Beautiful problems, chess and modernity -- The immortal game: moves 20 and 21 -- "We are sharing our world with another species. One that gets smarter and more independent every year", chess and the new machine intelligence -- The immortal game: moves 22 and 23 (checkmate) -- The next war, chess and the future of human intelligence -- Appendix I: The rules of chess -- Appendix II: The immortal game (recap) and five other great games -- Appendix III: Benjamin Franklin's "The morals of chess".
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