Game of Kings A Year among the Oddballs and Geniuses Who Make up America's Top HighSchool Ches S Team

Name: Game of Kings A Year among the Oddballs and Geniuses Who Make up America's Top HighSchool Ches S Team
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ISBN: 9781592403387

ISBN-10: 1592403387

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Authors: Michael Weinreb

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A year with the boy geniuses of the nations top high school chess team, now in paperback with a new afterword Edward R. Murrow High School has long been one of New Yorks public-education success stories, a school where there are no varsity sports, and the closest thing to jocks is found on the powerhouse chess team. Award-winning sportswriter Michael Weinreb follows the members of the Murrow chess team through an entire season. Weinreb delves into the history of chess in America, following the stories of greats such as Bobby Fischer, for whom the world within the chessboard is as easy to comprehend as the world beyond it is difficult.

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List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.92" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Michael Weinreb has written about college football for The New York Times, GQ, Sports on Earth, ESPN, and Grantland. He has been featured on NPR's This American Life and ESPN's 30 for 30, and has appeared on CNN, ESPN, and ESPN Radio. His book Game of Kings won the Quill Award for Best Sports Books of 2007. He lives in San Francisco, California.



Prologue



Opening



Do the Math



Bruckner's Gambit



Freedom of Choice



An Academic Challenge



A Game Unlike Any Other



The Orangutan



Chess and the City



All the President's Men



Middle Game



The Thirty-ninth Annual Greater New York Scholastic Team and Individual Chess Championships



The Women in the Room



Tiresome Days and Sleepless Nights



The 2005 New York State Scholastic Championships



It's Impossible to Change Your Destiny



Endgame



Supernationals III



Summertime


Epilogue


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Glossary


Bibliography


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