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Campos de fuerza. Fischer y Spasski en Reykjavik, 1973
En 1972, en plena Guerra Fría, tuvo lugar en Reykjavik el que sería el campeonato de ajedrez más famoso de la historia, que enfrentó a Fischer, estadounidense y egomaníaco, contra Spassky, ruso e introspectivo.
George Steiner estuvo presente y escribió este increíble ensayo. Ensayo que satisfará a los amantes de este deporte y hará de todos aquellos que nunca lo han tenido en cuenta aprendices de un arte mucho más apasionante de lo que jamás llegaron a imaginar.
George Steiner estuvo presente y escribió este increíble ensayo. Ensayo que satisfará a los amantes de este deporte y hará de todos aquellos que nunca lo han tenido en cuenta aprendices de un arte mucho más apasionante de lo que jamás llegaron a imaginar.
- GenresChess
123 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1973
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George Steiner
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Dr. Francis George Steiner was an essayist, novelist, philosopher, literary critic, and educator. He wrote for The New Yorker for over thirty years, contributing over two hundred reviews. Among his many awards, he received The Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award from Stanford University 1998. He lived in Cambridge, England, with his wife, historian Zara Shakow Steiner.
In 1950 he earned an M.A. from Harvard University, where he won the Bell Prize in American Literature, and received his Ph.D. from Oxford University (Balliol College) on a Rhodes Scholarship in 1955. He was then a scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, for two years. He became a founding fellow of Churchill College at the University of Cambridge in 1961, and has been an Extraordinary Fellow there since 1969. Additionally, Steiner accepted the post of Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva in 1974, which he held for 20 years, teaching in four languages. He became Professor Emeritus at Geneva University on his retirement in 1994, and an Honorary Fellow at Balliol College at Oxford University in 1995. He later held the positions of the first Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature and Fellow of St. Anne's College at Oxford University from 1994 to 1995, and Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University from 2001 to 2002.
Dr. Francis George Steiner was an essayist, novelist, philosopher, literary critic, and educator. He wrote for The New Yorker for over thirty years, contributing over two hundred reviews. Among his many awards, he received The Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award from Stanford University 1998. He lived in Cambridge, England, with his wife, historian Zara Shakow Steiner.
In 1950 he earned an M.A. from Harvard University, where he won the Bell Prize in American Literature, and received his Ph.D. from Oxford University (Balliol College) on a Rhodes Scholarship in 1955. He was then a scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, for two years. He became a founding fellow of Churchill College at the University of Cambridge in 1961, and has been an Extraordinary Fellow there since 1969. Additionally, Steiner accepted the post of Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva in 1974, which he held for 20 years, teaching in four languages. He became Professor Emeritus at Geneva University on his retirement in 1994, and an Honorary Fellow at Balliol College at Oxford University in 1995. He later held the positions of the first Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature and Fellow of St. Anne's College at Oxford University from 1994 to 1995, and Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University from 2001 to 2002.
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March 24, 2018
Es difícil para mí asumir la emotividad con que Steiner narra la partida que disputaron en Reykjavik Bobby Fischer y Boris Spasski, llamada "la partida del siglo" en 1972. Esto porque soy un neófito en el ajedrez y mi visión del juego es unilateral, diríase binaria, a la sazón de un ordenador bastante precario. Aun así, resulta fascinante a la vez que ensombrecedor adentrarse en el paroxismo que el juego engendra en no pocos jugadores, al punto de lo que, sin duda alguna, ha llegado a significar la demolición absoluta del alma de los ajedrecistas más implacables. El caso por antonomasia es Bobby Fischer.
January 1, 2026
Short and competent history of the famous 1972 chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, Iceland. This match--which featured appalling behavior from Fischer and scrupulous sportsmanship from Spassky--not only permanently changed the economics of chess, but it became a metaphor for the cultural and political differences between the Soviet Union and the USA.
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October 30, 2019
Me parece lo mejor que he leído sobre ajedrez, además de Novela de Ajedrez (Stefan Zweig) y "La batalla de las ideas en ajedrez". Resume un poco toda la historia más reciente del ajedrez sin entrar en demasiados detalles hasta el encuentro por la corona de Fischer y Spasski... Nos falta una segunda parte todo lo que vino después pero que se relata muy bien en el libro "Endgame (final de partida). El espectacular ascenso y descenso de BOBBY FISCHER" por Frank Brady.
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