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The Grandmaster
- Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again
- De: Brin-Jonathan Butler
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 37
Author Brin-Jonathan Butler was granted unique access to the two-and-half-week tournament (the World Chess Championship) and watched every move. In The Grandmaster, he aims to do for Magnus Carlsen what Norman Mailer did for Muhammed Ali in The Fight, John McPhee did for Arthur Ashe in Levels of the Game, and David Foster Wallace did for Roger Federer in his famous New York Times Magazine profile. Butler captures one of the world’s greatest sportsmen at the height of his powers and attempts to decipher the secret to that greatness.
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Random sketches-Zero Greatness-Very Little Magnus
- De Steve T en 11-29-18
- The Grandmaster
- Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again
- De: Brin-Jonathan Butler
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
A Beautiful Diversion
Revisado: 02-12-21
This book is about the 2016 World chess championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin. It attempts to do this from a variety of perspectives by delving into the lives of the participants as well as other child prodigies like Judit Polgar and Josh Waitzken as well as Former World Champions like Garry Kasparov, Bobby Fischer and José Raúl Capablanca. There are also accounts from journalists, friends, et cetera. The Author also draws parallels from other sports like boxing, deep sea diving and bull fighting to beautifully and poignantly describe the intensity of these long over-the-board battles. The book presents many significant aspects of chess history like: women in chess, the world chess championship itself, and little known enigmas like Peter Winston. One feels like rapidly visiting various strange countries under the auspices of an animated but informed tour guide. It is a beautiful diversion, much like chess itself.
The deliverance was very good with great inflection, tone and volume. The only thing that made me wince was 'irrevocable' with the emphasis on the 3rd syllable rather than the 2nd, but that pronunciation is also acceptable and may just be a personal idiosyncrasy.
The book can be enjoyed by people who know nothing of chess as well as the obsessed aficionado. I thank the author for this great work and plan on listening to it again soon.
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