All the Wrong Moves
A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything
New York : Doubleday, [2019]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 217 pages ; 20 cm
"A globe-trotting romp through the world of ultra-competitive chess, in which the author submits himself to humiliating defeats and the tutelage of ornery mentors in his search for glory--a celebration of the purity, violence, and beauty of the game"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Preface: The 600 million -- Kathmandu -- The Pawnishers -- One night in Bangkok -- A puzzle without a solution -- No Macs -- Rough Gus -- The secret of chess -- I'd hate to be God right now, because he sees everything -- Dreams die in California -- The beach.
Subjects:
Chapin, Sasha.
Chapin, Sasha -- Travel.
Chess players -- Canada -- Biography.
Chess -- Tournaments.
Chapin, Sasha.
Chapin, Sasha -- Travel.
Chess players -- Canada -- Biography.
Chess -- Tournaments.
ISBN:
9780385545174
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Chapin, Sasha | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |