‘This dark world’: the blindfold chess-player in Victorian literary and urban culture
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DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2017.1307783
Abstract: ABSTRACT George Walker's March 1840 article for Fraser's Magazine entitled ‘Chess Without the Chess-Board’ outlined the history and method of blindfold chess (or chess-play without sight of the board and pieces). Arriving as chess was… read more here.
Keywords: player; chess; blindfold chess; literary urban ... See more keywords
‘The machine being set in motion’: the automaton chess-player in urban and literary culture, 1839–1851
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DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1906310
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article examines nineteenth-century chess-player and writer George Walker’s essay ‘Anatomy of the Chess Automaton’ (1839). Walker’s writing frequently highlighted how spaces of urban modernity co-existed uneasily with historical memories. His tendency to highlight… read more here.
Keywords: chess; automaton; automaton chess; chess player ... See more keywords