All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything (Unabridged) All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything (Unabridged)

All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

An enthralling journey into the world of chess--a story of heartbreak, obsession, failure, and the hunger for greatness

Sasha Chapin is a victim of chess. Like countless amateurs before him--Albert Einstein, Humphrey Bogart, Marcel Duchamp--the game has consumed his life and his mind. First captivated by it as a member of his high school chess club, his passion was rekindled during an accidental encounter with chess hustlers on the streets of Kathmandu. In its aftermath, he forgot how to care about anything else. He played at all hours, for weeks at a time. Like a spurned lover, he tried to move on, but he found the game more seductive the more he resisted it.
    
And so, he thought, if he can't defeat his obsession, he had to succumb to it.

All the Wrong Moves traces Chapin's rollicking two-year journey around the globe in search of glory. Along the way, he chronicles the highs and lows of his fixation, driven on this quest by lust, terror, and the elusive possibility of victory. Stylish, inventive, and laugh-out-loud funny, All the Wrong Moves is a celebration of the purity, violence, and beauty of the game.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
SC
Sasha Chapin
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
05:27
hr min
RELEASED
2019
August 13
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
327.6
MB

Customer Reviews

SPG dogmom ,

Boring

I’m not even sure how this ended. Terrible book with a bunch of words and not a lot of story. What happened to him in the end? How did this ruin his life? So many questions

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