Dark Squares: How Chess Saved My Life

Dark Squares: How Chess Saved My LifeIn this heart breaking, hilarious, ultimately transcendent (Jeannette Walls) memoir, International Master and Chess. com co founder Danny Rensch describes his upbringing in an abusive cult and how chess ended up saving his life. Born into the Church of Immortal Consciousness, Danny Rensch spent his childhood navigating the isolated confines of a cult. Despite psychological manipulation, physical abuse, and neglect, he persevered. An international

is a dynamic and universal opening system that fills in the gaps for the Black player who plays the Accelerated Dragon

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The Blumenfeld Gambit is a rich opening with a history spanning for over one hundred years

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chess grandmaster whose international career was handicapped by political intrigues and his outspoken temperament

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The design of the Reykjavik II Chess set is an exact reproduction of the Chess set used by the legendary American Grandmaster Bobby Fischer when he won the 1972 World Chess Championship against the reigning World Champion Grandmaster Boris Spassky in Reykjavik

expanded edition of the 2003 classic on one of the greatest chess geniuses who ever lived

I have been playing and writing about the French Defense

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