Strategy and Sociability: The Mind, the Body, and the Soul of Chess

Autor/in	Fine, Gary Alan
Titel	Strategy and Sociability: The Mind, the Body, and the Soul of Chess
Quelle	In: American Journal of Play, 6 (2014) 3, S.321-344 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1938-0399
Schlagwörter	Play; Games; Emotional Response; Psychological Patterns; Competition; Cognitive Processes; Interpersonal Relationship; Social Influences; Audiences; Cognitive Ability; Computation; Interaction; Intuition; Prediction; Human Body + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Game; Spiele; Emotionales Verhalten; Wettkampf; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Sozialer Einfluss; Spectator; Zuschauer; Denkfähigkeit; Interaktion; Vorhersage; Menschlicher Körper
Abstract	Chess is a game of minds, bodies, and emotions. Most players recognize each of these as essential to playful competition, and all three are embedded in social relations. Thus chess, despite its reputation as a game of the mind, is not only a deeply thoughtful exercise, but also a test of physical endurance and strong emotions in its joys and failures. This exercise of thought, stamina, and feeling gets shaped, in turn, by chess's dependence on social arrangements among a player, a competitive other, and an audience. Like all forms of social play, games like chess rely on the community in which they occur. Having spent five years observing scholastic, collegiate, community, and professional chess and having interviewed players of various skill levels, the author argues that chess must be understood in light of the social relations and the communities that shape the competition. (As Provided).
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