Download or read book The Immortal Game written by Talia Rothschild and published by Swoon Reads. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exiled goddess goes on a quest to clear her name and save Mount Olympus in Talia Rothschild & A C Harvey's action-packed young adult debut, The Immortal Game! Galene, daughter of Poseidon, desperately wants to earn her place among the gods. But when a violent attack leaves Mount Olympus in chaos and ruins, she is accused of the crime. Banished from Olympus, Galene sets out to prove her innocence and discovers a more deadly plot—one that threatens even the oldest of Immortals. Fortunately, she has allies who willingly join her in exile: A lifelong friend who commands the wind. A defiant warrior with deadly skill. A fire-wielder with a hero’s heart. A mastermind who plays life like a game. All-out war is knocking at the gates. Galene and her friends are the only ones who can tip the scales toward justice, but their choices could save Olympus from total annihilation, or be the doom of them all.
Download or read book The Immortal Game written by David Shenk and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, engaging look at how 32 carved pieces on a Chess board forever changed our understanding of war, art, science, and the human brain. Chess is the most enduring and universal game in history. Here, bestselling author David Shenk chronicles its intriguing saga, from ancient Persia to medieval Europe to the dens of Benjamin Franklin and Norman Schwarzkopf. Along the way, he examines a single legendary game that took place in London in 1851 between two masters of the time, and relays his own attempts to become as skilled as his Polish ancestor Samuel Rosenthal, a nineteenth-century champion. With its blend of cultural history and Shenk’s lively personal narrative, The Immortal Game is a compelling guide for novices and aficionados alike.
Download or read book The Immortal Game written by David Shenk and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprising, charming, and ever-fascinating history of the seemingly simple game that has had a profound effect on societies the world over. Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? What is it about its thirty-two figurative pieces, moving about its sixty-four black and white squares according to very simple rules, that has captivated people for nearly 1,500 years? Why has it driven some of its greatest players into paranoia and madness, and yet is hailed as a remarkably powerful intellectual tool? Nearly everyone has played chess at some point in their lives. Its rules and pieces have served as a metaphor for society, influencing military strategy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and literature and the arts. It has been condemned as the devil’s game by popes, rabbis, and imams, and lauded as a guide to proper living by other popes, rabbis, and imams. Marcel Duchamp was so absorbed in the game that he ignored his wife on their honeymoon. Caliph Muhammad al-Amin lost his throne (and his head) trying to checkmate a courtier. Ben Franklin used the game as a cover for secret diplomacy.In his wide-ranging and ever-fascinating examination of chess, David Shenk gleefully unearths the hidden history of a game that seems so simple yet contains infinity. From its invention somewhere in India around 500 A.D., to its enthusiastic adoption by the Persians and its spread by Islamic warriors, to its remarkable use as a moral guide in the Middle Ages and its political utility in the Enlightenment, to its crucial importance in the birth of cognitive science and its key role in the aesthetic of modernism in twentieth-century art, to its twenty-first-century importance in the development of artificial intelligence and use as a teaching tool in inner-city America, chess has been a remarkably omnipresent factor in the development of civilization. Indeed, as Shenk shows, some neuroscientists believe that playing chess may actually alter the structure of the brain, that it may be for individuals what it has been for civilization: a virus that makes us smarter.
Download or read book Mortal Danger written by Ann Aguirre and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edie seeks revenge against those who bullied her.
Download or read book The Immortal Games of Capablanca written by Fred Reinfeld and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superbly annotated treasury contains 113 of the Cuban master's greatest games, including many previously unavailable in book form. Biography of Capablanca, tournament and match record, Index of Openings.
Download or read book Infinite Risk written by Ann Aguirre and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alone in the wrong timestream, Edie must navigate a new school and try to put her first love Kian on a different path, battling those who will stop at nothing to keep her from derailing their deadly schemes.
Download or read book The Immortal Games written by Annaliese Avery and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blood Moon marks the start of the Immortal Games. The Gods of Olympus randomly select humans as their tokens and then gamble with their lives. The stakes are high and survival is unlikely. 17-year-old Ara is seeking revenge on the Gods for allowing her sister to die in the games. She's determined to be selected as a token, but when she is, she realizes that it isn’t just her life at stake, but also her heart. With the odds stacked against her, it will take an unlikely hero to twist her rage into something much more complicated. Ara is playing in the games of life and death... and love. What will she sacrifice?
Download or read book The Immortal Game written by David Shenk and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chess is the one game that has thrived over thousands of years, and in every culture it has been introduced to. David Shenk reveals the hidden history of a game that disguises infinity within its simplicity.
Download or read book The Immortal Game written by Colin Hazlehurst and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Immortal Game written by Ray Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second of three novellas by the author of the poetry collections Resurrection and Alpha & Omega.
Download or read book The Game of Chess written by Nicolae Sfetcu and published by Nicolae Sfetcu. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide of chess: history, famous games and players, rules, strategy, tactics, chess and the computer, documentation and literature, variants. Chess (the "Game of Kings") is a board game for two players, which requires 32 chesspieces (or chessmen) and a board demarcated by 64 squares. Gameplay does not involve random luck; consisting solely of strategy, (see also tactics, and theory). Chess is one of humanity's more popular games; it is has been described not only as a game, but also as both art and science. Chess is sometimes seen as an abstract wargame; as a "mental martial art".
Download or read book The Immortal Games of Capablanca Selected and Annotated by F Reinfeld With a Portrait written by Fred Reinfeld and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memorable Chess Games Brilliants and Miniatures with Notes Queries and Answers written by W. Moffatt and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The immortal games of Capablanca written by José Raúl Capablanca and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Immortal Game written by Chad Huskins and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity is gone. The last man continues to struggle for survival against the hostile alien race that annihilated the rest of humanity as they track him to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. An uneasy alliance against a common enemy may be Rook's only hope of staying ahead of the Cerebral forces. Two minds made for meddling pit themselves against the cold, calculating Cerebrals in a desperate bid for survival in the greatest game ever played!
Download or read book Games of the Vienna Tournament of 1882 written by Alexander G. Sellman and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Immortal Game written by L G R T L G R T and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ancient Times, Anthropomorphus and his firstborn son Shamyaza, The Sutaan, and Red Dragon Grand Commander of the assassin order went to war with The Seeds of Light, the Light Born, causing one-third of the inhabitable worlds in the universe to fall to his universal religion of Anthropomorphism.In the unfallen two-thirds of the region of the universe The Seeds are sent again to the 'fallen regions' to plant themselves to prepare for the Final War between Seeds and Gods, to emancipate trapped souls who have forgotten their true soul origins, to remind them that they are born of the Divine Parents of Light.That the universe was created as a playground by the Divine Parents; for the children of light to play in forever, as a gift and playground in;THE IMMORTAL GAME!
