01.15.2010
Chess Match (7)
“Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.”
— William Steinitz, Austrian-American chess player and the first undisputed world chess champion, in 1896.
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Seventh in an occasional series.
Joshua Glenn is a Boston, Mass.-based writer, editor, and cultural semiotics analyst. He's cofounder of HiLobrow (named by TIME one of the Best Blogs of 2010), Significant Objects, and Semionaut. He's been a columnist for the Boston Globe, the Observer (London), Feed.com, and the Idler; he's toiled as a magazine, website, and newspaper editor; and he's authored and edited Taking Things Seriously (2007) and The Idler's Glossary (2008). In the '90s he published the seminal intellectual/pop culture zine Hermenaut.
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