Checkmate: The Black Schoolboy Who Beat a Chess Grandmaster at 12 - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9781739812102

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by Brian Lewis (Author)

A moving account of how a chess team made up of council estate children inspired an entire working-class community to take up the game that had normally been played by those from a more privileged background.

Micklefield School in the heart of a working-class community was inspired by a formidable teacher called Mr. Green who made it his quest to form a chess team that would make the school and the area proud. After two years of training the school produced 5 individual chess champions, the school started winning the chess league and produced a player (Brian Lewis) that beat an International Grandmaster within 4 years at the age of 12.

Number of Pages: 60

Dimensions: 0.16 x 9 x 6 IN

Publication Date: October 12, 2021

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