http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/entertainment/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/ reading material to get excited about Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:56:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/entertainment/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/comment-page-1/#comment-5885 NEWSGASM >> 9.29.06 » Bookgasm Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:20:27 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=851#comment-5885 [...] CHESS: THE HOME GAME If you haven’t read David Shenk’s THE IMMORTAL GAME: A HISTORY OF CHESS like we told you to, get on it. And you can also play along at home, if you’re the lucky winner of Shenk’s chess set giveaway. The set is “a reproduction of the 12th century Lewis Chessmen, the most vivid and important historical chess pieces of all time. Found in early 1831 on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland they are believed to be a Norse design carved from walrus tusk and whale teeth.” You can register to win here, and if you’re picked, you have to gift it to us. Deal? Deal. [...] [...] CHESS: THE HOME GAME If you haven’t read David Shenk’s THE IMMORTAL GAME: A HISTORY OF CHESS like we told you to, get on it. And you can also play along at home, if you’re the lucky winner of Shenk’s chess set giveaway. The set is “a reproduction of the 12th century Lewis Chessmen, the most vivid and important historical chess pieces of all time. Found in early 1831 on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland they are believed to be a Norse design carved from walrus tusk and whale teeth.” You can register to win here, and if you’re picked, you have to gift it to us. Deal? Deal. [...]

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