The name of the book is not the more imaginative title but the content of the book is very interesting. He separates the romantic era of chess to the professional one and speaks about many different chess players with different skills. The concepts from the book can be also applied to science in general: there was a romantic science era where one person alone could learn and produce a lot of stuff. Now we are in a professional era where we need teams to discover something, just look at the number of people involved in writing new papers in science.
Personally, I have not lost the romantic view but in a specialized world it is difficult to produce a lot of impact alone.
The name of the book is not the more imaginative title but the content of the book is very interesting. He separates the romantic era of chess to the professional one and speaks about many different chess players with different skills. The concepts from the book can be also applied to science in general: there was a romantic science era where one person alone could learn and produce a lot of stuff. Now we are in a professional era where we need teams to discover something, just look at the number of people involved in writing new papers in science.
Personally, I have not lost the romantic view but in a specialized world it is difficult to produce a lot of impact alone.