L'arcangelo degli scacchi: vita segreta di Paul Morphy

L'arcangelo degli scacchi: vita segreta di Paul Morphy

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L'arcangelo degli scacchi: vita segreta di Paul Morphy

L'arcangelo degli scacchi: vita segreta di Paul Morphy

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Description: Sessantaquattro caselle. Trentadue figure. E una possibilità combinatoria pressoché infinita. Nessuna partita di scacchi è uguale a un'altra. Ognuna è una sfida unica, giocata su quel quadrato magico che è la scacchiera: quasi un mondo fuori dal mondo.Paul Morphy è stato un autentico artista della scacchiera, forse il più grande. Nella sua brevissima parabola, sospesa sull'esile filo che separa la genialità dalla follia, ha incarnato alla perfezione l'essenza del "nobile gioco".Paul nasce a New Orleans, da una famiglia facoltosa, nel 1837. Ha solo quattro anni quando rivela il proprio straordinario talento. A dodici anni è già il più forte giocatore della Louisiana e, non ancora maggiorenne, si laurea campione degli Stati Uniti con una facilità disarmante. A quel punto non gli resta che affrontare i più famosi campioni europei, e soprattutto quello che molti considerano il migliore al mondo: Howard Staunton. A nulla valgono le suppliche della madre, e neppure della sua amata Adele.L'ambizione di Paul non conosce ostacoli. Come un cavaliere, sprezzante di qualunque premio che non sia la gloria, Morphy parte per la sua missione accompagnato da un ambiguo scudiero, il giornalista Frederick Milnes Edge, lasciando la solatia città natale per smarrirsi nelle nebbie londinesi.Chi era in realtà Paul Morphy? Quali accadimenti spensero la fiamma del suo genio, inducendolo ad abbandonare per sempre gli scacchi all'apice della carriera, e a ritirarsi in una grigia esistenza di solitudine? Questo romanzo è il suo memoriale perduto.Forse favorito da una curiosa consonanza onomastica, Paolo Maurensig si è calato nel suo personaggio come in un rito della New Orleans più profonda e misteriosa. Il suo racconto ricostruisce fedelmente le partite, i successi, le incredibili esibizioni di Morphy, e al tempo stesso svela le pieghe più segrete della sua vita, fino al duello dei duelli, la sfida che nessuno ha mai potuto vedere.Dopo La variante di Lüneburg, Maurensig firma un nuovo appassionante romanzo che restituisce tutto il fascino del gioco più complesso ed enigmatico che l'uomo abbia inventato, quasi a specchio della vita: dalla mossa di apertura allo scacco matto. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers. To get started finding L'arcangelo degli scacchi: vita segreta di Paul Morphy, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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201

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Hardcover

Published

2013

Publisher

Mondadori

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ita

Original Title

L'arcangelo degli scacchi: vita segreta di Paul Morphy

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