Artikelnummer
LXTYKHL
Horse Laffs
168 Seiten, kartoniert, Thinkers' Press, 1. Auflage 2007
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The Game Of Chess Is No LaughMatter... Except in this book!
It doesn't matter if it was the 19th century or the present one, chess players are not always serious. In fact, somethings just get weird.
·From the loud-mouthed kibitzer to the guy with sticky stuff on his chess pieces, the personality types that dot the chess scene form the unusual side of chess.
·Former world champion Boris Spassky believes that Viktor Korchnoi has every necessary quality to become the chess champion of the world except one thing...
·World correspondence champion Cecil Purdy was really a high-caliber chess humorist in disguise.
·Mikhail Tal, another world champion, gave the funniest impromptu interviews.
·Master Brian Wall claims he has found the ultimate winning chess opening - Fischer could have been beaten...
·The late Ukrainian/American grandmaster Eduard Gufeld collaborated by offering several dozen spicy bits of chess humor from his giant collection.
·Author Ralph Tykodi added his own touch with six stories of his own on one of the world's favorite pastimes, the Royal Game of Chess.
Foreword
The lead-off story in this collection, Caissa's Castle, is huonly in an en passant sort of way - it is intended to be a serious statement of the theme of this book, THE ZEN OF SMILING or CAISSA'S RULE. If we can find 3 things to smile about each and every day, our life is apt to be tolerable. The collection of stories in this book represents a "smile repositorium," designed to help the reader to achieve his/her quota of smiles on any given day.
It may be helpful to distinguish two kinds of humor:
i) humor of the first kind or direct humor - in this kind of humor, the humor resides in the material itself. Most of the material collected here, by authors other than myself, is humor of the first kind.
ii) humor of the second kind or indirect humor - in this kind of humor, the "displacement of expectations" on which humor depends for its wallop is more external to the mateitself; the wallop is of smaller caliber and depends on the form in which the material is displayed or on the fit of the material into a larger milieu. Some of my own contributions to this collection are more humor of the second kind than of the first kind.
[In Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, which rests on a bookshelf in my study, three sucentries read, in order: Prince of Darkness, Prince of Peace, Prince of Wales. I always smile when my eyes light upon that sequence. The incongruity of the third entry with respect to the first two provides a wallop due to the "displacement," "cheating," or "unfulfillment" of the expectation we built up on the basis of the first two entries. The individual entries contain no humor of the first kind, but the structure imposed on the items by displaying them as a sequence genhumor of the second kind.]
Now the aim of all kinds of humor, first, second, or whatis to make the reader smile; so, as you turn these pages, laugh a little, smile a lot, and be guided by Caissa's Rule.
It doesn't matter if it was the 19th century or the present one, chess players are not always serious. In fact, somethings just get weird.
·From the loud-mouthed kibitzer to the guy with sticky stuff on his chess pieces, the personality types that dot the chess scene form the unusual side of chess.
·Former world champion Boris Spassky believes that Viktor Korchnoi has every necessary quality to become the chess champion of the world except one thing...
·World correspondence champion Cecil Purdy was really a high-caliber chess humorist in disguise.
·Mikhail Tal, another world champion, gave the funniest impromptu interviews.
·Master Brian Wall claims he has found the ultimate winning chess opening - Fischer could have been beaten...
·The late Ukrainian/American grandmaster Eduard Gufeld collaborated by offering several dozen spicy bits of chess humor from his giant collection.
·Author Ralph Tykodi added his own touch with six stories of his own on one of the world's favorite pastimes, the Royal Game of Chess.
Foreword
The lead-off story in this collection, Caissa's Castle, is huonly in an en passant sort of way - it is intended to be a serious statement of the theme of this book, THE ZEN OF SMILING or CAISSA'S RULE. If we can find 3 things to smile about each and every day, our life is apt to be tolerable. The collection of stories in this book represents a "smile repositorium," designed to help the reader to achieve his/her quota of smiles on any given day.
It may be helpful to distinguish two kinds of humor:
i) humor of the first kind or direct humor - in this kind of humor, the humor resides in the material itself. Most of the material collected here, by authors other than myself, is humor of the first kind.
ii) humor of the second kind or indirect humor - in this kind of humor, the "displacement of expectations" on which humor depends for its wallop is more external to the mateitself; the wallop is of smaller caliber and depends on the form in which the material is displayed or on the fit of the material into a larger milieu. Some of my own contributions to this collection are more humor of the second kind than of the first kind.
[In Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, which rests on a bookshelf in my study, three sucentries read, in order: Prince of Darkness, Prince of Peace, Prince of Wales. I always smile when my eyes light upon that sequence. The incongruity of the third entry with respect to the first two provides a wallop due to the "displacement," "cheating," or "unfulfillment" of the expectation we built up on the basis of the first two entries. The individual entries contain no humor of the first kind, but the structure imposed on the items by displaying them as a sequence genhumor of the second kind.]
Now the aim of all kinds of humor, first, second, or whatis to make the reader smile; so, as you turn these pages, laugh a little, smile a lot, and be guided by Caissa's Rule.
| EAN | 9781888710069 |
|---|---|
| Gewicht | 280 g |
| Hersteller | Thinkers' Press |
| Breite | 15,4 cm |
| Höhe | 22,8 cm |
| Medium | Buch |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2007 |
| Autor | Ralph J. TykodiEduard Gufeld |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Auflage | 1 |
| ISBN-10 | 1888710063 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781888710069 |
| Seiten | 168 |
| Einband | kartoniert |