King’s Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World’s Most Dangerous Game
Paul Hoffman, . . Hyperion, $24.95 (433pp) ISBN 978-1-4013-0097-5
Hoffman’s masterful, exhaustive tale of chess, its soaring triumphs and crushing discontents is filled with enough international intrigue and warped, shady characters to pass for the latest James Bond sequel. Along with the stereotypical lunatic Russian grandmasters (“the normally even-keeled Russian asked that his chair be X-rayed and dismantled to make sure [Bobby] Fischer hadn’t implanted a harmful radiation emitter inside it”), chess-crazed Bulgarians, Canadians, Libyans and the occasional American plow through the contemporary chess world in search of victory. In clear, thoughtful prose, Hoffman (
Reviewed on: 07/16/2007
Genre: Nonfiction
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