Chess Midrash: The Art of Samuel Bak
Schifrin, Daniel, Tikkun
Chess Midrash: The Art of Samuel Bak
Daniel Schifrin
Daniel Schifrin writes about the arts for New York Jewish Week and is also an editor at kasparovchess.com, a website devoted to chess.
The Game Continues: Chess in the Art of Samuel Bak with introduction by Lawrence L. Langer. Pucker Gallery/Indiana University Press, 1999.
The game of chess--with its richness, complexity and barely suppressed violence--is an extraordinary metaphor for the human condition. Some of the most important fiction writers and poets of the last two centuries--Nabokov, Borges, Tolstoy, Canetti, Aleichem, Eliot, and others--have fully recognized the uncanny ability of a chess game …
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Publication information:
Article title: Chess Midrash: The Art of Samuel Bak.
Contributors: Schifrin, Daniel - Author.
Magazine title: Tikkun.
Volume: 15.
Issue: 6
Publication date: November/December 2000.
Page number: 67.
© 2002 Tikkun.
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