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1) Check & mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Cedar Cove volume 7
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Endgame
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Since he was five years old, Jose's abuelita taught him to play chess like his grandfather who was a champion in Mexico. Now as part of the Brownsville school team, Jose finds himself in the spotlight and has the chance to use his skills as he tries to help his team make it to the Texas state finals.
12) Gambito de dama
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Desde su primera publicación en 1983, esta novela se convirtió en un libro de culto para ajedrecistas en particular y amantes de la gran novela americana en general. Un secreto que de repente explotó a finales de 2020 con el estreno de la serie basada en esta historia, conquistando en tiempo récord al mundo entero. Beth Harmon, la protagonista, es ya un icono en la mente de los millones de fans de Gambito de dama: huérfana, solitaria, politoxicómana,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A globe-trotting romp through the world of ultra-competitive chess, in which the author submits himself to humiliating defeats and the tutelage of ornery mentors in his search for glory--a celebration of the purity, violence, and beauty of the game"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Scribner Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
One day in 2005 while searching for food, nine-year-old Ugandan Phiona Mutesi followed her brother to a dusty veranda where she met Robert Katende. Katende, a war refugee turned missionary, had an improbable dream: to empower kids in the Katwe slum through chess?a game so foreign there is no word for it in their native language. Laying a chessƯboard in the dirt, Robert began to teach. At first children came for a free bowl of porridge, but many grew...
17) Queen of Katwe
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After being introduced to the game of chess, a young Ugandan girl sees her life change.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The author provides an insider's account of the fiercely competitive world of professional chess, describing his own experiences as a troubled child prodigy, marked by his parents' divorce, who spent his weekends in the chess epicenter of Greenwich Village.
