This Crazy World of Chess
A behind-the-scenes tour of championship chess recounts 101 whimsical events and scandals affecting the high-stakes chess arena, from Bobby Fischer's struggles with paranoia to the truth behind the Deep Blue super-computer that beat Kasparov. Original.
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Fascinating, intriguing, and controversial, the dean of American chess tells the never-before-told machinations and stories of world championship chess and what really goes on behind the scenes of the game at its highest level. If you think that chess and marbles are the only games free from politics, you can scratch that idea. These 101 entertaining dispatches from the front deal with the crazy world of chess ranging from politics, Fischermania (and Fischer's paranoid antics), the real deal behind the deep blue supercomputer that beat Kasparov, to just plain gossip and fun.
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