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Game of Kings: A Year Among the Oddballs and Geniuses Who Make Up America's Top Highschool Chess Team Paperback - 2008

by Michael Weinreb

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At Brooklyn's prestigious Edward R. Murrow High School, the closest thing to jocks are found on the powerhouse chess team. Weinreb follows the members of the team through an entire season, capturing their eclectic differences as they prepare for the national championship.

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A year with the boy geniuses of the nation?s top high school chess team, now in paperback with a new afterword

Edward R. Murrow High School has long been one of New York?s 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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A year with the boy geniuses of the nation's top high school chess team, now in paperback with a new afterword

Edward R. Murrow High School has long been one of New York's 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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  • Title Game of Kings: A Year Among the Oddballs and Geniuses Who Make Up America's Top Highschool Chess Team
  • Author Michael Weinreb
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Avery Publishing Group, New York
  • Publication date 2008-01-01
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781592403387 / 1592403387
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.44 x 0.81 in (20.32 x 13.82 x 2.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
  • Category Games / Gamebooks / Crosswords
  • Library of Congress subjects High school students - New York (State) -, Chess - New York (State) - New York
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006027864
  • Dewey Decimal Code 794.109

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'In this thrilling, vigorously reported, deeply empathic book, Michael Weinreb . . . brings to vivid life a contemporary chess world suffused with its own updated version of nerd machismo.'
The New York Times Book Review

'Fascinating. . . . [Game of Kings] does for high school chess what Buzz Bissinger's 1991 bestseller, Friday Night Lights, did for high school football.'
USA Today

'Writing with the deft, propulsive style of a young Frank Deford, Michael Weinreb has captured both the intellectual insanity and the curious normalcy of what it's like to be a teenaged super-genius. [Game of Kings] is theFriday Night Lights of high school chess.'
Chuck Klosterman, author of Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs and Chuck Klosterman IV

Citations

  • New York Times Book Review, 01/06/2008, Page 24

About the author

Michael Weinreb's previous book Game of Kings won the Quill Award and was named one of the best books of the year by Amazon.com. He has been a regular contributor to The New York Times, Newsday, and ESPN.com, as his work has been anthologized in The Best American Sports Writing collection. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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