The Art of the Game of Chess - Tapa blanda

López, Ruy

 
9780813232812: The Art of the Game of Chess
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ISBN 10: 0813232813 ISBN 13: 9780813232812
Editorial: The Catholic University of America Press, 2020

Sinopsis

The Art of the Game of Chess is the first English translation of Fr. Ruy López’s 1561 book about chess, Libro de la invención liberal y arte del juego del ajedrez. López was a priest who served as King Philip II’s confessor and royal advisor. As a connoisseur of chess, King Philip II promoted the game in his court, and it did not take long for López to become known as Spain’s and one of Europe’s greatest chess players.

López is widely acclaimed as one of the most influential chess thinkers of all time whose theories of chess are an integral part of how chess is played today. Academics, including historians, linguists, sociologists, and Hispanists, as well as non-academics, especially chess enthusiasts, will appreciate this translation, which opens with a Foreword by Andrew Soltis, who is a Grandmaster and a United States Chess Hall of Fame Inductee, and includes a critical introduction and more than 275 footnotes.

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Ruy Lopez (c. 1530 – c. 1580) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest whose 1561 book was one of the first definitive books about modern chess in Europe.

Michael McGrath is professor of Hispanic studies at Georgia Southern University.

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Editorial
The Catholic University of America Press
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0813232813
ISBN 13 
9780813232812
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
336
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