Impact of Genius: 500 Years of Grandmaster Chess
Seattle: International Chess Enterprises, 1992.
First Edition. Hardcover.
First Edition. First Printing.
Impact of Genius has three aims. First, to tell the human story of the greatest players in the 500 years of the modern game of chess. Second, to chronicle the development of the game's leading ideas, their genesis from practical pay and their incorporation into the body of received chess knowledge. Third, to attempt to relate the development of chess culture to the evolution of human culture in Europe and America. The author’s hypothesis is that chess does not exist in its own little world; chess events and cultural events interact.
Item #901526ISBN: 1879479044
5-1/2 x 8-5/8", black cloth, viii, 392pp, 229 commented chess games, 222 chess diagrams.
Square, tight, clean, crisp, very fine in very good bright dust wrapper with a bit of edge-wear (1/2” jagged tear and a long very shallow chip) in protective mylar.
Price: $85.00