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Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given tranquilizers twice a day. Plain and shy, she learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a chess genius. Penniless and desperate to learn more, she steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a chess tournament. She also...
Author
Publisher
Lorenz Books, an imprint of Anness Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The history, greatest games, famous players, and how to play: terminology, rules of the game, skills, opening strategies and endgames, game plans and tips for success, with over 700 illustrations." -- ONIX annotation.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edici�on.
Language
Español
Description
Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and...
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Publisher
Cardoza Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
2022 edition, New edition.
Language
English
Description
"This popular and indispensible book, one of the best-selling chess opening books ever, has taught countless players the key concepts of the opening, the most crucial part of every chess game. Beginning and intermediate players learn the best opening moves, from both Black's and White's perspectives, of more than 25 essential openings including crushing powerful attacks like the Ruy Lopez and King's Gambit, sizzling asymmetrical defenses like the...
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The queen of chess, Hungarian Judit Polgar, dazzled the world as a prodigy, winning tournaments, gold medals, and defeating eleven world champions, including Garry Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen. At her peak, Judit was rated the eighth best chess player in the world. But before these tremendous successes, Judit burst onto the chess scene as a ferocious, child competitor. Beating adults by five-years-old, and winning international tournaments by age...
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Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Chess is one of the most popular and challenging strategy games of all time! This engaging title covers the rules, pieces, moves, and strategies. Step-by-step photos bring matches to life and connect readers to the instructions. Fact boxes highlight fascinating facts and records including the longest match, extreme chess games, and more. --Amazon.
10) Game of the gods
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Language
English
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"In 1930s British India, a humble servant learns the art of chaturanga, the ancient Eastern ancestor of chess. His natural talent soon catches the attention of the maharaja, who introduces him to the Western version of the game. Brought to England as the prince's pawn, Malik becomes a chess legend, winning the world championship and humiliating the British colonialists. His skills as a refined strategist eventually drag him into a strange game of...
Author
Publisher
M.K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Alex quits playing chess after losing a game to Uncle Hooya; but when other activities fail to satisfy him, he gives his favorite game another try by joining the chess club.
12) Check & mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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When eighteen-year-old Mallory begrudgingly agrees to return to chess in one last charity tournament, her surprise upset against Nolan Sawyer, the reigning world champ and bad boy of the chess world, sets her on an worldwind adventure as she rediscovers her passion for the game.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
Language
English
Description
Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given tranquilizers twice a day. Plain and shy, she learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a chess genius. Penniless and desperate to learn more, she steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a chess tournament. She also...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Walter Tevis is widely regarded as a master for both his gritty poolhall novels and his brilliant rendering of the world of competitive chess. This long overdue collection establishes Tevis's rightful place as a maestro of the short form, as well. Bringing together the 1981 short story collection Far From Home with a host of other previously unpublished stories from journals and magazines, this entertaining collection showcases Tevis's characteristic...
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English
Description
Readers of Heather Morris's The Tattooist of Auschwitz and watchers of The Queen's Gambit won't want to miss this amazing debut set during World War II. A young Polish resistance worker, imprisoned in Auschwitz as a political prisoner, plays chess in exchange for her life, and in doing so fights to bring the man who destroyed her family to justice.
Maria is many things: daughter, avid chess player, and member of the Polish underground resistance...
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English
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2003, Colorado: Alexandra Solarin is summoned home to her family' ancestral Rocky Mountain hideaway for her mother's birthday. Thirty years ago, her parents, Cat Velis and Alexander Solarin, believed that they had scattered the pieces of the Montglane Service around the world. When Alexandra arrives her mother is missing and a mysterious group of houseguests have arrived, along with her aunt and the most powerful piece of Charlemagne's service.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Do you believe in miracles? Tani Adewumi does. An eight-year-old refugee from Nigeria, Tani shocked the ultra-exclusive chess club community when he won the New York State Chess Championship after only playing the game for a year. But what no one realized is that his story was already full of miracles"--Provided by publisher.
19) Focused
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Clea wants to do her homework, follow instructions, pay attention in school, and play chess on the school team, but somehow she cannot focus on whatever is in front of her, and the other kids at school are starting to notice and make fun of her; when her worried parents take her to be tested she finds out that she has ADHD (only without the hyperactivity)--and with help from the psychiatrist who seems to really understand her she is...
20) Not an easy win
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Nothing has gone right for twelve-year-old year old Lawrence since his Pop went away, but after getting expelled from school for fighting he discovers the world of chess and things begin to change.
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