{"title":"Daniel Johnson","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"rei-branco-e-rainha-vermelha","title":"White king and red queen","description":"White King, Red Queen chronicles in captivating detail the history of the game and its competitors throughout the 20th century, culminating in the emergence of Garry Kasparov, the last Soviet world champion. Author Daniel Johnson—a chess player, Cold War correspondent, and historian—is the perfect guide to this extraordinary era, when chess matches, for a brief but glorious period, made front-page news and captured the world's attention. This is the story of how chess came to play a unique role: simultaneously a symbol of the Cold War and its antithesis—the culture of old Europe that had somehow survived. Chess sheds light on the process by which Western civilization ultimately triumphed over the gravest threat it faced. And the history of chess in the Cold War offers lessons for dealing with present or future threats to that civilization. As the White Queen says to Alice in Through the Looking-Glass, “It is a poor kind of memory that only works backward,” the author concludes. The author shows how the history of 20th-century chess is inextricably linked to the rise and fall of Soviet communism. The book begins with the early days of revolutionary activity in central Europe, when the chessboard was the province of exiled intellectuals and games were confined to cafes. When the Bolsheviks settled in the Kremlin after the 1917 Revolution, they took chess with them. Although Lenin himself was an enthusiastic chess player, it was Nikolai Krilenko, the founder of the Red Army, persuaded the Kremlin to adopt chess as a symbol of Soviet power. From then on, players were forced to compete for the state, under threat of arrest or exile if they refused. During the Cold War, communist influence on international politics was reflected in Soviet domination of world chess. From 1945 onward, champions invariably came from Soviet soil. Finally, in 1972, three decades of Soviet chess hegemony were shattered with the historic clash between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. The years between 1974 and 1981 saw the equally thrilling struggle between Viktor Korchnoi, an anti-communist dissident, and Anatoli Karpov, a loyal representative of the Kremlin. \"White King and Red Queen\" shows that the political and military rivalry of the Cold War, banished from the battlefield by the destructiveness of nuclear war, was played out on the chessboard. The book ends with an echo of this rivalry: the duel between Kasparov and Putin, in which the battle of ideas moved from the chessboard to the political arena,” concludes the author.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159463903484,"sku":"9788501083319","price":94.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/46d6df1a0f76e23cd39148f2ef6c03db.jpg?v=1778728338"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/daniel-johnson.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}