chess

In 1835, when his father is put in a Philadelphia debtor's prison, twelve-year-old chess prodigy Rufus Goodspeed is relieved to be recruited to secretly operate a chess-playing automaton named The Turk, but soon questions the fate of his predecessors and his own safety.

Describes strategies for launching a successful attack against a chess opponent's king, and includes algebraic notation and diagrams.

A comprehensive, illustrated manual that teaches the general principles and methods of the game of chess.

Freshman Daniel Pratzer is surprised when his teammates on the high school chess team invite him and his father to a weekend-long parent-child tournament, but Daniel soon begins to uncover secrets about his father that force him to re-examine his own life.

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