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Inspired by both Daniel Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year' (1722) and 'The King', an anthology of the witty and provocative chess columns of the Dutch Grandmaster, Jan Hein Donner, Ray Keene here collects his thoughts and writings on the year 2020 - both in chess and the wider world. His reflections include the impact of Covid-19 on the popularity of chess, the remarkable influence of the Netflix series 'The Queen's Gambit', the growing army of teenage Grandmasters, the online pivot of chess competition and the emergence of chess entrepreneurs, such as World Champion Magnus Carlsen and Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura.. Like Donner, Ray uses chess as a metaphor for observations on art, culture and civilisation.
Contents
1. Chess: Mastery and Metaphor; 2. Praeceptor Britanniae; 3. How Jewish pioneers discovered a new beauty in chess; 4. Chess - the barometer of a nation's health; 5. The legacy of Henry Thomas Buckle; 6. Carlsen Invictus; 7. Did Shakespeare play chess?; 8. Die Harmonie der Welt: Chess; 9. Leonardo and chess; 10. Marcel Duchamp: Chess master; 11. Chess and Islam: Shohreh Bayat, Alireza Firouzja and Iran's brain drain; 12. Chess: Oxford versus Cambridge; 13. Blindfold Chess; 14. Chess in the Year of the Coronavirus Pandemic; 15. Leonid Storm; 16. Napoleon: the chess player; 17. The Game of War; 18. Chess: Breaking the Code; 19. Your Home is Your Castle; 20. Darkness and Light: Joseph Conrad, Stefan Zweig and Chess; 21. Arise, Sir Demis; 22. Pyrenean Victory; 23. Chess, comic books and the first "World Master"; 24. Arthur, Thomas and Emanuel; 25. In which I am accidentally declared a physics genius; 26. What the Thunder Said; 27. Two questions posed by Borges; 28. Anonymous Bosch; 29. The Touchstone of Intellect; 30. A modest proposal: let them eat cake; 31. The Demons and the Angel: Chess in Art; 32. The man who beat them all - and then vanished; 33. Survival of the Fattest: Macheïde and Superman; 34. Piscator Rex: The Chess Tragedy of Bobby Fischer; 35. Aron Nimzowitsch's Four Pillars of Chess Wisdom; 36. Why are Women better at Memory Sports than Men but (still) not at Chess?; 37. Who is @HowardStaunton?; 38. The Irresistible Force; 39. Thoughts on the British Championships; 40. The Russian Bear Baited; 41. Following your Heroes; 42. Alexander the Great; 43. The Staunton Pattern; 44. Napoleon and Alekhine; 45. Copy the Enemy; 46. It's my own invention; 47. April Fooled; 48. Breyer's Legacy; 49. Bats, Balls and Rabbits; 50. Recurring Themes. Plus an Index of Games.
