Length5h 43m
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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."
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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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