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Author Weinreb, Michael.

Title The kings of New York : a year among the geeks, oddballs, and geniuses who make up America's top high school chess team / Michael Weinreb.

Publication Info. New York : Gotham Books, 2007.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  794.1 WEINREB    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  794.1 WEI    Storage
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  794.1097 47 WEI    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  794.1 WEI    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  794.1 W43    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  794.109747 WEINREB    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  794.1 WEI    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  794.1 W43K    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  794.1097 WEI    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  794.1097 WEINREB    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 288, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page [287-289]).
Contents Prologue -- Do the math -- Bruckner's gambit -- Freedom of choice -- An academic challenge -- A game unlike any other -- The Orangutan -- Chess and the city -- All the president's men -- The thirty-ninth annual greater New York scholastic team and individual chess championships -- The women in the room -- Tiresome days and sleepless nights -- The 2005 New York state scholastic championships -- It's impossible to change your destiny -- Supernationals III -- Summertime -- Epilogue.
Subject Chess -- New York (State) -- New York.
Chess players -- New York (State) -- New York.
High school students -- New York (State) -- New York.
ISBN 1592402615 hardcover
9781592402618 hardcover
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