THE GRANDMASTER: MAGNUS CARLSEN AND THE MATCH THAT MADE CHESS GREAT AGAIN
Feb 07, 2019
2 minutes
BY BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER (2018, SIMON & SCHUSTER, $26 HARDCOVER, 211 PAGES)
—R.W.S.
lthough this book centers on the 2016 World Chess Championship match between Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Sergey Karjakin of Russia, it devotes a great deal of attention to the psychology of top chess players—their motivations, their behavior under pressure, and their reaction to winning or losing. The author
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