He has received the Bard Fiction Prize, a Michener-Copernicus Award, and nominations for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the New York Public Library s Young Lions Fiction Award. Is an engaging read for chess adherents and the philosophically inclined alike.īenjamin Hale is the author of "The Fat Artist and Other Stories" and the novel "The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore". Putting forth a remarkable array of different views on chess from philosophers with varied chess-proficiency, Philosophical concepts as varied as phenomenology and determinism share the page with a treatise on hip-hop chess tactics and the question of whether Garry Kasparov is, in fact, a cyborg. When 12 philosophers weigh in on one of the world's oldest and most beloved pastimes, the results are often surprising. Chess, the ancient strategy game, meets the latest, cutting-edge philosophy in this unique book.
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