Thank you to everyone who listened to today’s episode! Chess is a game very near and dear to me. I have spent countless hours studying, reading, talking, and playing Chess. It became more than a hobby to me the summer before college. I adopted a club in Little Rock, wherein I ran and taught at the club all summer before coming to Hendrix College and starting up the old chess club here. And because I love this game, I figured I ought to talk about it!
Though chess on it’s own is not historically interesting, the context that chess exists in is. While we could just isolate the game and its styles, what happens when we look out to the world that chess exists in? How does the Cold War change the World Championship? How does globalization change chess? How does technology and its spread change how chess players study? These are just some of the questions I asked myself during the research of this episode as we use the game of chess as an example of the evolving world.
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R.i.p. to Abe Lincoln