The Immortal Game By David Shenk

The game of chess has a very simple objective but must be completed in a very complex way. The 32 pieces of the game, collectively and individually, represent a social standing that was used in previous centuries that can help us understand some of the struggles of the past. David Shenk wrote The Immortal Game to help the readers understand the importance of one game in our world’s history. Though books about chess and how it represents life have been written before, David adds a new spin on that concept by adding in history and modernization. This book allows the reader to walk through the life of chess, as well as, proceed to predict how the future will be affected by the game of chess and modernization. Shenk does a superb job of helping
Shenk says that a man was even so into the game that he ignored his wife on their honeymoon to learn more about the game. A game of thirty-two pieces and sixty-four squares has driven people mad but has also been hailed as a very powerful and intellectual tool. The rules and game itself have been used as a metaphor that has been used in military, mathematics, artificial intelligence and literature. While the rules and the game are relatively simple, they have produced a vast amount of assistance in our world. Even though chess is merely a board game, many people believe that it means so much more. David Shenk is one of these people and he tries to highlight the reasons that many have a strong belief in the
Dictatorship is also known as totalitarianism. Totalitarianism is a political system in which the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life wherever possible. This is what life was like when Hitler took over Germany. Dictators have the need to control people from fear. This all connects to modernity by showing how even governments have to change to continue to be modern with the times. If governments would stay the way they started then all the citizens of the world would still be put into a classification based on the amount of money they or their family owned. These are all things that Shenk could have been trying to tell us in the book but some of these things he wants the reader to find himself and not just tell