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Still Thrills: The Drama of Chess
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 58, Number 2, Summer 2014 (T222)
- pp. 87-98
- Article
- Additional Information
Although chess is a game that is played, it is also an event that is performed. An analysis of the Fischer-Spassky World Championship, the match between Garry Kasparov and IBM’s Deep Blue, and the European tour of the 19th-century American champion Paul Morphy reveals the qualities that make competitive chess a theatrical event that relies both on bodies and on imaginations.