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DAVID SHENK is a national-bestselling author of four previous books, including The Forgetting and Data Smog, and a contributor to National Geographic, Gourmet, Harper's, The New Yorker, NPR and PBS. The Forgetting was hailed by John Bayley as "the definitive work on Alzheimer's," and subsequently inspired an Emmy-award winning PBS film of the same name. Shenk frequently lectures on issues of health, aging, and technology, and has advised the President's Council on Bioethics. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
"Understanding is the essential weapon" : chess and our origins | p. 13 |
House of wisdom : chess and the Muslim Renaissance | p. 29 |
The morals of men and the duties of nobles and commoners : chess and Medieval obligation | p. 43 |
Making men circumspect : modern chess, the accumulation of knowledge, and the march to infinity | p. 65 |
Benjamin Franklin's opera : chess and the enlightenment | p. 87 |
The emperor and the immigrant : chess and the unexpected gifts of war | p. 107 |
Chunking and tasking : chess and the working mind | p. 123 |
"Into its vertiginous depths" : chess and the shattered mind | p. 141 |
A victorious synthesis : chess and Totalitarianism in the twentieth century | p. 163 |
Beautiful problems : chess and modernity | p. 185 |
"We are sharing our world with another species, one that gets smarter and more independent every year" : chess and the new machine intelligence | p. 199 |
The next war : chess and the future of human intelligence | p. 227 |
The rules of chess | p. 245 |
The immortal game (recap) and five other great games from history | p. 255 |
Benjamin Franklin's "The morals of chess" | p. 281 |
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