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White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard | 
 enlarge | Author: Daniel Johnson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
List Price: $26.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 105573
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 0547133375
Dewey Decimal Number: 794.10947
EAN: 9780547133379
ASIN: 0547133375
Publication Date: November 10, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
Daniel Johnson -- journalist, editor, scholar, and chess enthusiast who
once played Garry Kasparov to a draw in a simultaneous exhibition --
is the perfect guide to one of history's most remarkable periods,
when chess matches were front-page news and captured the world's imagination.
The Cold War played out in many areas: geopolitical alliances, military
coalitions, cat-and-mouse espionage, the arms race, proxy wars -- and
chess. An essential pastime of Russian intellectuals and revolutionaries,
and later adopted by the Communists as a symbol of Soviet power, chess
was inextricably linked to the rise and fall of the "evil empire." This original
narrative history recounts in gripping detail the singular part the
Immortal Game played in the Cold War. From chess's role in the Russian
Revolution -- Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky were all avid players -- to the 1945
radio match when the Soviets crushed the Americans, prompting Stalin's
telegram "Well done lads!"; to the epic contest between Bobby Fischer
and Boris Spassky in 1972 at the height of detente, when Kissinger told
Fischer to "go over there and beat the Russians"; to the collapse of the
Soviet Union itself, White King and Red Queen takes us on a fascinating
tour of the Cold War's checkered landscape.
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A veritable history of chess over the last 150 years November 3, 2008
A very fine work which provides an entertaining and quite detailed account of chess history over the last 150 years that have seen battles between American and European chess geniuses (for example Morphy triumphing over the European masters, the brilliant and tragic Pillsbury, the great Capablanca (undoubtedly the greatest genius ever to play chess), Reshevsky, and with special emphasis on the rise of Fischer, a player of indomintable will and genius and his ultimate triumph that catapulted him to the status as one of the greatest players to ever play the game. I highly recommend this book.
Chess with an edge May 17, 2008
Daniel Johnson has written about a fascinating era of chess with the gripping edge of a seasoned sportswriter, though he certainly hasn't had to lower himself into the ranks of such ink-stained wretches. His descriptions of the tension-filled scenarios are done with flair...even if you are not that interested in chess, this book entertains and informs at every turn. He's got the details down pat, introducing the novice reader to Mikhail Tal and Alan Turing and many other characters dotting the landscape of international chess.
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