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Brand: Marzia Grillo
EAN: 9788860046321
Categoria: Libri e riviste

La famiglia di un farmacista che sale su un'allucinata Arca di Noè, una coppia alle prese con una sequenza infinita di richieste di matrimonio, la ricerca di una casa che accolga un'orfana nel suo grembo come una matrioska, e ancora: una ragazza che sfida il mondo tutto maschile di un campionato di backgammon e impara l'arte del barare, la caccia al tesoro di due fratelli che non riescono ad abbandonare l'infanzia che li tiene assieme, la caduta di una dittatura politica e familiare, un triangolo amoroso che ha la stabilità dei castelli di carte, la lenta educazione di un fantasma alla parola. Il reale e il fantastico si fondono in questi tredici racconti, in cui Marzia Grillo osserva con sguardo chirurgico il mondo da prospettive tanto umane quanto meccaniche e celesti, giocando e mischiando tutte le forme narrative.

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Brand: Oliver Roeder
EAN: 9781324003779
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Checkers, backgammon, chess and Go. Poker, Scrabble and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules and the ways their design makes them pleasurable.\n\n Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across fourty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai, the Master, the last Go champion of imperial Japan, defending tradition against \"modern rationalism\" and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon programme so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the space shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt; the Indian origins of chess; how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones.\n\n Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits, and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself.\n\n Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programmes better than any human player and what that means for the games-and for us. Funny, fascinating and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history and how play makes us human.

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Brand: Jonathan Lethem
EAN: 9781784701642
Categoria: Libri e riviste

**A New York Times top 100 Notable Book of the Year**\n\nAlexander Bruno is a man with expensive problems. Sporting a tuxedo and trotting the globe, he has spent his adult life as a professional gambler. His particular line of work: backgammon, at which he extracts large sums of money from men who think they can challenge his peerless acumen. In Singapore, his luck turned. \n\nMaybe it had something to do with the Blot - a black spot which has emerged to distort Bruno's vision. It's not showing any signs of going away. As Bruno extends his losing streak in Berlin, it becomes clinically clear that the Blot is the symptom of something terrible. There's a surgeon who can help, but surgery is going to involve a lot of money, and worse: returning home to the garish, hash-smoke streets of Berkeley, California. Here, the unseemly Keith Stolarsky - a childhood friend in possession of an empire of themed burger bars and thrift stores - is king. And he's willing to help Bruno out. But there was always going to be a price.

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Brand: Graham Greene
EAN: 9780099529149
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat - the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor's father. The stranger, known as the Captain, takes Victor to live with the sweet but withdrawn Lisa, where he serves as her conduit to the outside world. From mysterious beginnings, Graham Greene's final novel becomes a twisting thriller of smuggling, jewel theft and international espionage which culminates in a dramatic showdown in Panama.

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Brand: Claire North
EAN: 9780356513126
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse. But few know all its secrets . . . \n\nIt is the place where fortunes can be made and lost though chess, backgammon - every game under the sun.\n\nBut those whom fortune favours may be invited to compete in the higher league . . . where the games played are of politics and nations, of economics and kings. It is a contest where Capture the Castle involves real castles and where hide and seek takes place on the scale of a continent.\n\nAmong those worthy of competing in the higher league, three unusually talented contestants play for the highest stakes of all . . . \n\nFrom Claire North, author of word-of-mouth bestseller The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and one of the most original new voices in modern fiction, comes the mesmerising tale of the Gameshouse, where games of chance and skill control the fate of empires.\n\n*Originally published as three digital-only instalments: The Serpent, The Thief and The Master.*\n\n\nPraise for Claire North:\n\n'One of the fiction highlights of the decade' Judy Finnigan, Richard and Judy Book Club\n\n'North's talent shines out' Sunday Times\n\n'Little short of a masterpiece' Independent\n\n'Poignant and intensely gripping' Guardian\n\n'Terrific, smart and entertaining' Patrick Ness

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Brand: Jonathan Lethem
EAN: 9788893441636
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Un libro che affronta il tema del gioco per raccontare la psicologia di un uomo tormentato\r\n\r\nIl sesso fu inventato un giorno\r\nda una coppia di giocatori\r\ndi backgammon annoiati.\r\n\r\n«... l'inizio di un'avventura esistenziale piena di sorprese narrative che tornano ancora una volta sui temi che gli stanno maggiormente a cuore: la possibilità di una politica radicale e anarchica, il senso di vuoto per la mancanza di una madre, il fascino per la cultura underground e per i generi letterari popolari...» - Antonio Monda, Jonathan Lethem\r\n\r\nAffascinante, sempre elegantissimo, Bruno Alexander viaggia per il mondo arricchendosi a spese degli sventurati dilettanti che pensano di poter sfidare il suo ineguagliabile talento di giocatore di backgammon.\r\nSpinto dal suo manager, pallido e vampiresco, Bruno arriva a Berlino dopo una serie di partite a Singapore, dove è accaduto qualcosa che lo ha sorpreso. Forse a causa dell’incontro con un suo volgare amico d’infanzia e la sua bollente fidanzata, o forse per una misteriosa macchia comparsa improvvisamente che gli impedisce di vedere con precisione il gioco, il suo infallibile intuito, capace\r\ndi leggere nella mente del suo sfidante, sembra essersi inceppato. A Berlino la situazione non migliora affatto. Bruno continua a perdere al gioco; il flirt con una donna bionda, troppo bionda, non va a finire bene, la macchia cresce e la diagnosi medica è impietosa.\r\nBruno è costretto allora a tornare in California, dopo una vita passata all’estero, per affrontare un intervento chirurgico: la macchia, dopo avergli danneggiato la vista,\r\nrischia ora di ucciderlo. L’unico che può operarlo\r\nè un chirurgo hippie, che ha messo a punto una tecnica sperimentale e che lo terrà sotto i ferri per nove ore ascoltando Jimi Hendrix a tutto volume.\r\nCon questa operazione Bruno potrebbe riacquistare tutto il suo potere al gioco, ma a che prezzo? Sarà sempre lui?\r\nE l’America che gli si mostrerà davanti sarà la medesima\r\nche aveva lasciato e che ricordava? E una domanda inizierà\r\na rincorrerlo: forse lui, giocatore d’azzardo, è stato “giocato” dalla vita e dai suoi modesti interpreti?

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Brand: Oliver Roeder
EAN: 9781324051022
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Checkers, backgammon, chess and Go. Poker, Scrabble and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules and the ways their design makes them pleasurable.\n\n Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across fourty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai, the Master, the last Go champion of imperial Japan, defending tradition against \"modern rationalism\" and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon programme so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the space shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt; the Indian origins of chess; how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones.\n\n Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself.\n\n Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programmes better than any human player and what that means for the games-and for us. Funny, fascinating and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history and how play makes us human.

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EAN: 9781119996743
Categoria: Libri e riviste

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Brand: Chris Bray
EAN: 9780470770856
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A comprehensive and fun guide to Backgammon! Backgammon is one of the oldest games in the world, the origins of which date back some 5000 years - and it's still going strong. It enjoyed a huge resurgence in the 1970s, and then again in the 1990s with the popularity of the Internet, where millions of people play tournaments online every day. Today, backgammon's following in the UK is huge, with a dedicated British Isles Backgammon Association, and hundreds of face-to-face tournaments taking place across the UK every year. In this book, backgammon expert Chris Bray walks you through the basics of setting up a board, opening strategies, middle and end-game tactics, and tips on when to make key moves. You'll also get to grips with basic probabilities, the doubling cube and the 25# rule. And if you want to take your gaming further, there's plenty of advice to get you started in tournament backgammon, as well as playing online. Suitable for both beginners and experienced player looking for more tips and techniques, Backgammon For Dummies includes coverage on: Starting and Playing the Game Handling the Middle Game Bearing Off (The Last Lap) Varying the Play About the author

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