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The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Genuises Who Make Up America's Top High School Chess Team

The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Genuises Who Make Up America's Top High School Chess Team

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The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Genuises Who Make Up America's Top High School Chess Team

de Michael Weinreb

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New York: Gotham, 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 3353 shelf. Metallic red-stamped black spine w/ taupe bds. Remainder mk bottom edge. No names, clean text. Unblemished dust jacket. With glossary, bibliography, a few chess moves. Book is about playing the game, but not specific games.

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With strict admission standards and a progressive curriculum, Brooklyn's Edward R. Murrow High School has long been one of New York's public-education success stories, serving a diverse neighborhood of immigrants and minorities and ranking among the nation's best high schools. At Murrow, there are no sports teams, and the closest thing to jocks are found on the school's powerhouse chess team, which annually competes for the national championship.In The Kings of New York sportswriter Michael Weinreb follows the members of the Murrow chess team through an entire season, from cash games in Washington Square Park to city and state tournaments to the SuperNationals in Nashville, where this eclectic bunch competes against private schoolers and suburbanites. Along the way, Weinreb brings to life a number of colorful characters: the Yale-educated calculus teacher (and former semipro hockey player) who guides the savants while struggling to find funding for his team; an aspiring rapper and tournament hustler who plays with cutthroat instinct; the team's lone girl, a shy Ukrainian immigrant; the Puerto Rican teen from the rough neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant who plays an ingenious opening gambit named the Orangutan; and the Lithuanian immigrant and team star whose chess rating is climbing toward grandmaster status.In the bestselling tradition of such books as Word Freak and Friday Night Lights, The Kings of New York is a riveting look inside the world of competitive chess and an inspiring profile of young genius.

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Inventario del vendedor #
072312
Título
The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Genuises Who Make Up America's Top High School Chess Team
Autor
Michael Weinreb
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Tapa dura
Estado del libro
Usado - Bueno
Estado de la sobrecubierta
Fine
Cantidad disponible
1
Edición
1st Edition
ISBN 10
1592402615
ISBN 13
9781592402618
Editorial
Gotham
Lugar de publicación
New York
Fecha de publicación
2007
Páginas
289
Palabras clave
chess

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