商品簡介
An insider's account of the fiercely competitive world of professional chess describes the author's experiences as a child prodigy who spent his weekends in the chess epicenter of Greenwich Village, a youth also marked by his parents' divorce and his observations about the eccentric lives of fellow players. By the author of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers.
作者簡介
Paul Hoffman was president of Encyclopedia Britannica and editor-in-chief ofDiscover. and is the author of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers and The Wings of Madness. He is the winner of the first National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, and his work has appeared in theNew Yorker, Time, and Atlantic Monthly. He lives in Woodstock, NY.
