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The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Genuises Who Make Up America's Top HighSchool Chess Team
de Weinreb, Michael
- Usado
- as new
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1592402615
- ISBN 13
- 9781592402618
- Librería
-
Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Gotham, 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Fine. First Edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Nice!
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- Biblio Pursuit
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 056020
- Título
- The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Genuises Who Make Up America's Top HighSchool Chess Team
- Autor
- Weinreb, Michael
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- 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
- 304
- Palabras clave
- Chess
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