From the stock market to the poker table, from earthquakes to the economy, he takes us on an enthralling insider's tour of the high-stakes world of forecasting, showing how we can all learn to detect the true signals amid a noise of data.The Six Power Moves of Chess 3rd Edition Author In The Signal and the Noise, the New York Times political forecaster Nate Silver, who accurately predicted the results of every state in the 2012 US election, reveals how we can all develop better foresight in an uncertain world. The rise of 'big data' has the potential to help us predict the future, yet much of it is misleading, useless or distracting. Yet from the financial crisis to ecological disasters, we routinely fail to foresee hugely significant events, often at great cost to society. The International Bestseller by 'The Galileo of number crunchers' (Independent) Every time we choose a route to work, decide whether to go on a second date, or set aside money for a rainy day, we are making a prediction about the future. The pieces on the chessboard were more than subjects they were individuals, playing by the rules. For these writers and others, the game provided a means to figure both human interactions and institutions, to envision a civic order not necessarily dominated by a king, and to imagine a society whose members acted in concert, bound together by contractual and economic ties. As allegorists and political theorists connected the moves of the pieces to their real-life counterparts, chess took on important symbolic power. More than pleasure was at stake, Adams contends. Power Play is the first book to ask why chess became so popular so quickly, why its pieces were altered, and what the consequences of these changes were. In its Western form, chess featured a queen rather than a counselor, a judge or bishop rather than an elephant, a knight rather than a horse in some manifestations, even the pawns were differentiated into artisans, farmers, and tradespeople with discrete identities.
In Power Play, Jenny Adams looks to medieval literary representations to ask what they can tell us both about the ways the game changed as it was naturalized in the West and about the society these changes reflected. Characters in countless romances, chansons de geste, and moral tales of the eleventh through twelfth centuries also played chess, which often symbolized romantic attraction or sexual consummation. Both men and women, and even priests played the game despite the Catholic Church's repeated prohibitions. The game of chess reached western Europe by the year 1000, and within several generations it had become one of the most popular pastimes ever.
Includes sample Spot the Power Move training videos! Do you want to see the entire book and my Spot the Power Move Training videos for free? Call or send an email to the author. Suitable for players of all levels from amateur to tournament chess players below expert level. The Six Power Moves are the key to the skillful jousting and maneuvering of the chess pieces in unknown and random positions to gain both tactical and strategic advantages, the skill which separates all players. Many players don't need to "get better" or learn more per se, what they need is a different model for choosing the best moves. Nothing will improve your game faster than this revolutionary insight into chess which shows the unifying force to both strategy and tactics. The Six Power Moves of Chess could be called "The Missing Chess Lesson," because "The Six Power Move Thinking Process" is what is needed most by most players and what is missing from the chess books on your bookshelf.
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