Reviews for Chess: The History of a Game

The average rating for Chess: The History of a Game based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-06-16 00:00:00 Bradley Howell Richard Eales offers a clear and well-reasoned synopsis of the state of knowledge concerning the history of chess at the time he wrote the book (early 1980s). The book is documented well with bibliographic essays for each chapter. Eales narrates the development of chess with an emphasis on how we know what we know, and what is not known (although research since the publication of the book has pushed back against some of our ignorance). General readers looking for uncritical stories that can lull them into a false sense of expertise should look elsewhere. But anyone looking for the historiography of chess should read this book.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-07-31 00:00:00 Jason McGhee One of the first books on the A's of this era, it was wonderfully done and tells the complete story fresh in the time. Hard to find at times, if you can get your hands on a copy of this book, you will not regret it.