tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post116345037610860712..comments2024-02-18T10:25:18.117-05:00Comments on The Kenilworthian: The Immortal Game and Chess HistoryMichael Goellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512012158305281566noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-37482714304103925392021-09-03T02:51:56.495-04:002021-09-03T02:51:56.495-04:00Thank you for sharing such a great post; I will re...Thank you for sharing such a great post; I will read more of your work<br />Please Visit Us to know more about <a href="https://saswath.academy/" rel="nofollow">Best chess coaching in india</a> <br />Saswath Academyhttps://saswath.academynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-27349845228661194502010-05-17T06:10:54.860-04:002010-05-17T06:10:54.860-04:00this kind of blog always useful for blog readers, ...this kind of blog always useful for blog readers, it helps people during research. your post is one of the same for blog readers.thesis writinghttp://www.eduthesis.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-18860106514335775802007-02-17T00:55:00.000-05:002007-02-17T00:55:00.000-05:00That was a very thoughtful and interesting essay. ...That was a very thoughtful and interesting essay. I agree that chess has come to be a home for the loner/individualist. I would even argue that chess is a board game expression of what the ancient Greeks called "monomachia," a contest of two great warriors (think Achilles and Hector), as opposed to the mass, nameless warfare of the modern world (as found in RISK). Chess is very much about the personal ego and the personal victory....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-1164813912750138362006-11-29T10:25:00.000-05:002006-11-29T10:25:00.000-05:00Great article, Michael. I appreciate your effort a...Great article, Michael. I appreciate your effort and your good writing skill. You also present interesting ideas.<BR/><BR/>I believe that we're in a "golden era" of chess journalism, one that tackles social/cultural ideas, and most of this writing comes from contemporary mainstream writers. Many of the social/historical non-ficton books you mention were published just in the last decade. There are even more coming out. Michale Weinreb followed the champion Murrow HS chess team around for a year, and has a book about this experience (THE KINGS OF NEW YORK); I believe Paul Hoffman is coming out with a socio-psychological critique/memoir of the game, titled CHESS CRAZED; there have even been a few business books published recently using chess as a metaphor (Pandolfini's EVERY MOVE HAS A PURPOSE comes to mind as well as Karpov's CHESS AND THE ART OF NEGOTIATION); and Kasparov has a chess/business book coming out next year (ATTACKER'S ADVANTAGE).<BR/><BR/>Keep up the good work.<BR/><BR/>Howard Goldowsky<BR/>Boston, MAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-1163848717492743192006-11-18T06:18:00.000-05:002006-11-18T06:18:00.000-05:00Very interesting article. Have a good continuation...Very interesting article. Have a good continuation.<BR/><BR/>Play <A HREF="http://www.ficgs.com" REL="nofollow">Correspondence chess</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-1163600937374307392006-11-15T09:28:00.000-05:002006-11-15T09:28:00.000-05:00Michael:Another thoughtful, insightful and interes...Michael:<BR/><BR/>Another thoughtful, insightful and interesting post. <BR/><BR/>You are quite correct about chess people being heavily invested in and partial to the individualist ethos --- you mention chess players, but I think that extends to chess politicians, chess organizers, chess adminstrators and chess parents as well. <BR/><BR/>And unfortunely, I think that leads to so much of the dysfunction we see in our chess communities locally, nationally and on the globally for that matter as well. <BR/><BR/>As long as the "What's In It For Me" mentality predominates, I don't think we'll see that much more in terms of social histories of chess, chess storytelling, or flowering of chess culture that some of us out there are trying to promote. <BR/><BR/>But more importantly, I think the game itself will remain a boutique activity, an aquired taste, with no meaningful growth among either youth or adult populations. <BR/><BR/>In any event, I very much appreciate the great work that you do --- especially when you are on "Hiatus".......<BR/><BR/>cd64Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12844144.post-1163595798249585152006-11-15T08:03:00.000-05:002006-11-15T08:03:00.000-05:00I took this out from my library and found it to be...I took this out from my library and found it to be an interesting read. As he points out about some of the folklore of chess, Stories are not meant to tell facts, they are meant to tell the truth.takchesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12700106696079445533noreply@blogger.com