Authors: David Shenk
FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, AUGUST 2007
Copyright © 2006 by David Shenk
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, an imprint of The Doubleday Broadway Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2006.
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Map on Chapter 3 by Jackie Aher
Photos on Acknowledgments by Ian J. Cohn, copyright © 2005
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shenk, David, 1966–
The immortal game : a history of chess / David Shenk.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Chess—History. I. Title.
GV1317.S44 2006
794.109—dc22 2005056025
eISBN: 978-0-307-38766-0
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