The Game of Kings

A Year Among the Oddballs and Geniuses who make up America's Top High School Chess Team

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Author: Michael Weinreb
Publication Date: December 27, 2007


Publisher: Gotham Books
Author: Michael Weinreb
Year of Publication: 2008

Pages: 304
Notation Type: NL (Notationless)


Edward R. Murrow High School has long been one of New York's public-education success stories, providing a diverse Brooklyn neighborhood of immigrants and minorities with a top-flight education. At this bastion of forward-thinking there are no varsity sports, and the closest thing to jocks is found on the school's powerhouse chess team.

In Game of Kings award-winning sportswriter Michael Weinreb follows the members of the Murrow chess team through an entire season, from tournaments at private clubs to cash games at Washington Square Park to the Supernationals in Nashville, where this eclectic bunch competes against private schoolers and suburbanites fro the national championship. Weinreb explores the peculiar genius of these chess prodigies who are alternately exalted and exasperated by the sixty-four squares that delineate their obsession, describing in vivid detail a cast that includes: a tournament hustler who plays with cuttrhoat instict; the team captain for whom chess is both a passion and a route to college admission; the Puerto Rican teen who plays an ingenious opening gambit named The Orangutan; and the two stars of the team, both Eastern European immigrants, whoese chess ratings climb toward grandmaster status as their rivalry grows ever more heated.

Gripping, powerful, and heartrending, Game of Kings is a riveting look inside the world of competitive chess and an inspiring profile of young genius.

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