Length5h 43m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "I do not claim to be an authority on either the history or the practice of chess, but, as the poet Gray observed when he saw his old school from a long way off, it is sometimes an advantage not to know too much of one's subject. The imagination can then be exercised more effectively. So when I am playing Capablanca (or old Robinson) for the championship of the home pastures, my thoughts are not fixed exclusively upon the "mate" which is threatening; they wander off into those enchanted lands of long ago, when flesh-and-blood knights rode at stone-built castles, and thin-lipped bishops, all smiles and side-long glances, plotted against the kings who ventured to oppose them. This is the real fascination of chess."
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length5 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 24, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
13CHAPTER XI
2ILLUSTRATIONS
14CHAPTER XII
3CHAPTER I
15CHAPTER XIII
4CHAPTER II
16CHAPTER XIV
5CHAPTER III
17CHAPTER XV
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6CHAPTER IV
18CHAPTER XVI
7CHAPTER V
19CHAPTER XVII
8CHAPTER VI
20CHAPTER XVIII
9CHAPTER VII
21CHAPTER XIX
10CHAPTER VIII
22CHAPTER XX
11CHAPTER IX
23CHAPTER XXI
12CHAPTER X
24CHAPTER XXII
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