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A surprising, charming, and ever-fascinating history of the seemingly simple game that has had a profound effect on societies the world over. Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it...

In 1961, Thomas Schelling's The Strategy of Conflict used game theory to radically reenvision the US-Soviet relationship and establish the basis of international relations for the rest of the Cold War. Now, Anne-Marie Slaughter - one of Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers from 2009 to 2012, and the first woman to serve as director of the State Department Office of Policy Planning - applies network theory to develop a new set of strategies for the post-Cold War world.

A real life Queen’s Gambit, this captivating memoir tells the story of one of the most renowned women in chess history, Susan Polgar, taking on a sexist establishment and rewriting the rules of what women could achieve against the oppressive backdrop of Cold War Eastern Europe. Born to a poor...

The game of chess has long be used a microcosm for everything from international politics to war. In The Morals of Chess, an essay originally published in The Columbian Magazine in 1786, Benjamin Franklin, American founding father, polymath, and thinker, tackles this intricate game and likens it to life itself. Franklin discusses what he believes to be key virtues one must possess to be happy, successful, and productive in life, and illustrates these virtues, such a patience and circumspection, within the context of the game of chess.

“A terrific book, witty and lucid, and brimming with provocative conjectures.” (Wall Street Journal) from the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Genome Brilliantly written, The Red Queen compels us to rethink everything from the persistence of sexism to the endurance of...

Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen’s Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator’s compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women’s work and feminist protest. The indisputable “queen...

"The Gift of Chess" ist der Name einer US-amerikanischen NGO, deren Ziel es ist, bis 2030 weltweit eine Millionen Schachspiele zu verteilen - als Geschenk.In diesem dreiteiligen Podcast erzählen wir die Geschichte der Organisation. Von der Gründung in New York City, über ein Hochsicherheitsgefängnis in Kansas, eine schwimmende Schachschule in einem Slum in Nigeria. bis zu einem Weltrekord im Schachmarathon für das Guinness-Buch der Rekorde.Immer Freitags erscheint eine neue Folge von The Gift of Chess: Am 7.3., am 14.3. und am 21.3. Über Kommentare, Lob und Kritik würden wir uns sehr ...

At the turn of the millennium, a five-year-old boy from Cuba found off the Florida coast on Thanksgiving became the most talked about child in America. Elián González had left Cuba with his mom and a dozen other migrants, trying to make it to the U.S. but on the way, the boat capsized. Elián’s mother drowned. Before she did, she tied her child to an inner tube, saving his life. Relatives in Miami — Cuban exiles — took the boy in. His father in Cuba wanted him back. The ensuing international custody battle over Elián González became its own mini Cold War, pitting Cuban exiles in ...

A classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belonging In 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewish emigration, was arrested by the KGB. He spent nine years as a political prisoner, convicted...

Mates inmortales, magistrales estrategias, jugadores de leyenda: Judit Polgár, Greco, Bobby Fischer, los duelos entre Karpov y Kasparov, las hazañas de los niños prodigio, las grandes aperturas... Un audiolibro imprescindible destinado a convertirse en bitácora del apasionante juego que más admiración concita en el mundo. ¿A quién se le ocurrió reproducir el teatro de la guerra en miniatura hace más de quince siglos con figuras que encarnaban los cuerpos del ejército indio? ¿Qué ser pensante decidió que de la suerte del rey dependía la de la partida?

A surprising, charming, and ever-fascinating history of the seemingly simple game that has had a profound effect on societies the world over. Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it...