"Packaged in a tactile hardback format, this great gift for chess-lovers will reinforce what recipients have, in all likelihood, always known: Chess is Life!"
More than a book about chess, Chess is Life presents 500 quotes that variously reveal details of the game, and truths about life.
Structured around six themed chapters (The Beauty of the Game, The Greats on the Greats, Your Opponent, Pawns and Pieces, Gameplay, and Chess is Life), the book examines chess from all angles, through the varied lens of Marcel Duchamp (“I am still a victim of Chess. It has all the beauty of art and much more”), Humphrey Bogart (“Chess is an intellectual exercise. Also a companionable game”), and many other famous figures, including masters of the game. While many of the selected quotes express what chess means to particular individuals, others reveal insights into life beyond the board. For example, in the words of Magnus Carlsen, the Norwegian chess grandmaster, “Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything”.
While of obvious interest to devoted chess players, Chess is Life is also likely to be enjoyed by novices, and by readers who love to unpack thought-provoking quotes and witticisms by notable thinkers from the fields of literature, politics, and more.
Life is like a game of chess, as the proverb goes: it changes with every move. Across the board, players confess to seeing the world in new ways, observing the movement of time differently or making sense of art, science and politics. Its beauty has captured the imagination of many of the world's greatest minds, across several generations.
In this book, we have compiled some of the finest wit and wisdom from the world of chess. Whether about tactics, pieces, victories or blunders, these quotes collectively pay homage to history's most beloved game and how it reflects the world in which we live.
After all, chess is life.
Chess Is Life features in the following genres: Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure, Board games: Chess, Quotations, proverbs and sayings, Social groups: alternative lifestyles, Philosophy of mind, Popular philosophy: Meaning of life / finding sense in life, Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects, Encyclopaedias and reference works, Reference works, Quotations, proverbs and sayings, Society and Social Sciences, Society and culture: general, Social groups, communities and identities, Social groups: alternative lifestyles, Philosophy and Religion, Philosophy, Topics in philosophy, Philosophy of mind, Popular philosophy, Popular philosophy: Meaning of life / finding sense in life, Hobbies, quizzes and games, Indoor games, Board, table top and strategy games, Board games: Chess
Chess Is Life is available in Hardback
Chess Is Life was written by August Books and published by August Books an imprint of Canelo
Chess Is Life has 176 pages
£11.69
