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Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"After years in and out of mental institutions, Genesis is released into the care of his older brother Ariki, a street gang leader. When he volunteers to train a group of disadvantaged Maori children for the upcoming National Chess Championships, it puts him at odds with his brother over Ariki's son Mana, whose interest in the game threatens the teen's imminent initiation into his father's violent gang. Despite all odds, Gen's positivity always leads...
Publisher
Bleeker Street Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. It chronicles Fischer's terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Nothing has gone right for twelve-year-old year old Lawrence since his Pop went away, but after getting expelled from school for fighting he discovers the world of chess and things begin to change.
10) Check & mate
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When eighteen-year-old Mallory begrudgingly agrees to return to chess in one last charity tournament, her surprise upset against Nolan Sawyer, the reigning world champ and bad boy of the chess world, sets her on an worldwin adventure as she rediscovers her passion for the game.
Publisher
Corpus
Pub. Date
1929
Language
English
Description
вершинное достижение Владимира Набокова 20‑х годов, его первая большая творческая удача, принесшая ему славу лучшего молодого писателя русской эмиграции. Показав, по словам Глеба Струве, "колдовское владение темой и материалом", Набоков этим романом...
Author
Publisher
ABC-Atticus_ A foreigner
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Неоконченная шахматная партия на картине фламандского художника и загадочная надпись, обнаруженная на ней под слоем краски, становятся ключом в расследовании жестоких убийств, которые происходят в наши дни. Каждый из героев романа превращается...
13) Queen to play
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Language
Français
Formats
Description
**Oscar-winner** Kevin Kline and Sandrine Bonnaire square off in this stylish and sophisticated dramedy of newfound passions and mid-life triumphs, set on the postcard-perfect isle of Corsica. Lovely, repressed and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Hélène (Bonnaire) comes upon a couple engaging in an intense chess match, and discovers she has a knack for the game. This obsession—much to the chagrin of her husband and teenaged daughter—leads...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Josh Waitzkin, the subject of the book and movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer", discusses how the techniques he learned while playing chess helped him master the physical and mental challenges of martial arts to become a World Champion.
Author
Publisher
AST
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
Description
Девушка со странным именем Грёза получает в наследство старую питерскую квартиру, кота Никона и комплект испанских шахмат XV века. Используя красивые фигурки, она разыгрывает сценки реальной жизни и своих мечтаний на шахматной доске. Как хотелось...
16) Computer chess
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, Computer chess transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs. We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed of the vision to teach a metal box to defeat man, literally, at his own game, laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence as we know it and will come to...
17) Berani
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Perspectives of two Indonesian middle-schoolers and a caged orangutan entwine. Wealthy Malia faces the consequences of disobediently circulating an anti-palm-oil petition at her school, resulting in suspensions for herself, her best friend, and her teacher. Ari, fortunate to be plucked from his impoverished village to attend school and compete in chess tournaments, helps the uncle who is hosting him but worries about Ginger Juice, the orangutan his...
20) Chess fever
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A Keaton-esque comedy in which a young man's passion for the game threatens to wreck his marriage.
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