
The Rookie
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In a witty, accessible style that will delight newcomers and irritate purists, Moss imagines the world as a board and marches across it, offering a mordant report on the world of chess in 64 chapters - 64 of course being the number of squares on the chessboard. He alternates between "black" chapters - where he plays, largely uncomprehendingly, in tournaments - and "white" chapters, where he seeks advice from the current crop of grandmasters and delves into the lives of great players of the past.
It is both a history of the game and a kind of "Zen and the Art of Chess"; a practical guide and a self-help book: Moss's quest to understand chess and become a better player is really an attempt to escape a lifetime of dilettantism. He wants to become an expert at one thing. What will be the consequences when he realises he is doomed to fail?
Moss travels to Russia and the US - hotbeds of chess throughout the 20th century; meets people who knew Bobby Fischer when he was growing up and tries to unravel the enigma of that tortured genius who died in 2008 at the inevitable age of 64; meets Garry Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen, world champions past and present; and keeps bumping into Armenian superstar Levon Aronian in the gents at tournaments.
He becomes champion of Surrey, wins tournaments in Chester and Bury St Edmunds, and holds his own at the famous event in the Dutch seaside resort of Wijk aan Zee (until a last-round meltdown), but too often he is beaten by precocious 10-year-olds and finds it hard to resist the urge to punch them. He looks for spiritual fulfilment in the game, but mostly finds mental torture.
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- Cover
- THE ROOKIE
- A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
- Dedication
- Title
- Contents
- Handshake
- File A
- A1 : Bald Truths Bald truths
- A2: In search of a guru
- A3: The tiger and the monk
- A4: A brief history of chess
- A5: Epiphany in Chess-ter
- A6: Grand mastery
- A7: Short and almost sweet
- A8: The view from Bunnysville
- File B
- B1: Luzhin and lunacy
- B2: Wimbledon woe
- B3: Donner and blitzen
- B4: Home sweet home
- B5: Why do we do it?
- B6: End of the Weald
- B7: A rising star
- B8: Miracle in Torquay
- File C
- C1: The wall
- C2: Back to the Rock
- C3: Angst in Asda
- C4: Men behaving badly
- C5: Not quite a classic
- C6: The rocky road to grandmaster
- C7: Cold comforts
- C8: Don't call me a 'journeyman' GM
- File D
- D1: Champ or chimp?
- D2: A bus ride to Wijk
- D3: The elegist
- D4: Welcome to class 5B
- D5: Chess as human comedy
- D6: In the soup
- D7: Tea with Timman
- D8: Meltdown
- File E
- E1: Half-time talk
- E2: The joy of sets
- E3: Heartache in Hereford
- E4: Mad, bad Vlad
- E5: Playing at 'the Club'
- E6: Handshake with history
- E7: Blitzed in Gorky Park
- E8: Present v past
- File F
- F1: In Fischer's shadow
- F2: life at the Marshall
- F3: Brooklyn's chess factory
- F4: The view from Washington Square
- F5: The chess philanthropist
- F6: Clocked by Big Ben
- F7: The million-dollar man
- F8: Chasing the big bucks
- File G
- G1: Home truths
- G2: Howell and happiness
- G3: If you can't stand the heat .
- G4: Time for an Mot
- G5: Banishing the demons
- G6: Is chess good for you?
- G7: My cup runneth over
- G8: 'We are odd, but not barking'
- File H
- H1: Vlad comes to town
- H2: The full English
- H3: 'I'm like a West Brom midfielder'
- H4: Death of a stalwart
- H5: The trouble with women
- H6: Almost imperious
- H7: What's up, Doc?
- H8: Bournemouth revisited
- Post-Mortem
- Algebraic Notation Explained
- My Ten Key Games
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Copyright
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