Game of Kings: A Year Among the Oddballs and Geniuses Who Make Up America's Top HighSchool Ches s Team - Softcover

Weinreb, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592403387 ISBN 13: 9781592403387

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

Review

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 Bissingers 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 insanityand the curious normalcyof what its like to be a teenaged super-genius. ["Game of Kings"] is the "Friday Night Lights" of high school chess.
Chuck Klosterman, author of "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" and "Chuck Klosterman IV"

aIn 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.a
a"The New York Times Book Review"
aFascinating. . . . ["Game of Kings"] does for high school chess what Buzz Bissingeras 1991 bestseller, "Friday Night Lights," did for high school football.a
a"USA Today"
aWriting with the deft, propulsive style of a young Frank Deford, Michael Weinreb has captured both the intellectual insanityaand the curious normalcyaof what itas like to be a teenaged super-genius. ["Game of Kings"] is the "Friday Night Lights" of high school chess.a
aChuck Klosterman, author of "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" and "Chuck Klosterman IV"

?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 the "Friday Night Lights" of high school chess.?
?Chuck Klosterman, author of "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" and "Chuck Klosterman IV"

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1592403387
• ISBN 13: 9781592403387
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 304