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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...
3) Intermezzo
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"An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties--successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women--his enduring...
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Bleeker Street Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
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In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. It chronicles Fischer's terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.
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Cedar Cove series volume 7
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While catching up on all the Cedar Grove gossip, Teri Polgar senses that something is amiss with her new husband Bobby, a famous chess champion, when he begins acting strangely.
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BGP Releasing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
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"After years in and out of mental institutions, Genesis is released into the care of his older brother Ariki, a street gang leader. When he volunteers to train a group of disadvantaged Maori children for the upcoming National Chess Championships, it puts him at odds with his brother over Ariki's son Mana, whose interest in the game threatens the teen's imminent initiation into his father's violent gang. Despite all odds, Gen's positivity always leads...
9) Magnus
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FilmRise/Fisher Klingenstein Ventures LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
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As a young boy, Magnus Carlsen was very different from his peers. Bullied by the other children, he usually sat by himself, lost in thought. But when a strong interest in numbers led him to the game of chess at the age of 5, he quickly started to climb the ranks of the chess world. At 13, he decided that he would become the World Chess Champion. Magnus is now known as the “Mozart of Chess” – combing the skill and intellect of chess with unrivaled...
10) The nana project
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Gravitas Ventures LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
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Set primarily at Timeless Acres Retirement Home, the film follows a documentary crew who develop an interest in one of its star resident's feisty chess master Helen "Nana" Lewis. With the help of her friends Jennifer, Francesca, Jack, Esther, Kitty, Gladys, and Lisa, Nana begins training for the State Chess Championship. She plans on dominating the competition, but her real plan involves reuniting her estranged grandsons, Andrew, a dedicated veterinary...
12) Izzy + Tristan
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Izzy isn't happy about her recent move from the Lower East Side across the river to Brooklyn. She feels distanced from her family, especially her twin brother, as well as her new neighborhood. Then she meets Tristan, a chess prodigy who lives with his aunt and looks up to his cousin, Marcus. When they meet, family, friends, and society threaten to keep them apart.
13) Check & mate
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2023.
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ATL Staff Picks: September & October 2024
ATL: Goodreads Choice Awards 2023
ATL: Romance for Teens
HPL: Teen Romance
ATL: Goodreads Choice Awards 2023
ATL: Romance for Teens
HPL: Teen Romance
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After chess led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory Greenleaf's focus is a dead-end job that keeps the lights on for her mother and sisters. When she plays in a charity tournament and wipes the board with current world champion Nolan Sawyer, the victory opens the door to sorely needed cash prizes. Mallory struggles to keep her family separated from the game, but she soon realizes that the games aren't only on the board. The...
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Magic Cat Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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Discover why the world's first Black Grandmaster Maurice Ashley thinks that chess is one of the best skills in life. Follow him on a journey from the Bronx to a world stage where he has taught thousands of young people the life philosophies of the game.
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Chronicle Prism
Pub. Date
[2024]
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"A little book of life advice drawing on the timeless wisdom of chess from Maurice Ashley, the first African American Chess Grandmaster. At age thirty-three, Maurice Ashley became the first African American to attain the rank of International Grand Master of Chess. Since that historic moment, he has brought his love of the game to a wide audience as an educator, innovator, and motivational speaker. In Move by Move, Ashley guides readers through the...
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Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2007
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As a young man, Paul Hoffman was a brilliant chess player...until the pressures of competition drove him to the brink of madness.
In King's Gambit, he interweaves a gripping overview of the history of the game and an in-depth look at the state of modern chess into the story of his own attempt to get his game back up to master level, without losing his mind. It's also a father and son story, as Hoffman grapples with the bizarre legacy of his own dad,...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002
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Westminster, 1184-- in the court of King Henry, playful competition is about to turn into something far more serious. Young courtier Fulke FitzWarin would not be an obvious companion for Prince John, but the boy from the Welsh Marches is there as a reward for his family's loyalty to the crown. The FitzWarins are as proud as they are true, and when Fulke is accused by John of cheating during a game of chess, he cannot help but respond. Thus begins...
18) Queen of Katwe
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Disney
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Based on the vibrant true story of a young girl from the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess, and, as a result of the support she receives from her family and community, is instilled with the confidence and determination she needs to pursue her dream of becoming an international chess champion.
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Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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The queen of chess, 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.