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Paperback Checkmate: The Black Schoolboy Who Beat a Chess Grandmaster at 12 Book
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ISBN: 1739812107

ISBN13: 9781739812102

Checkmate: The Black Schoolboy Who Beat a Chess Grandmaster at 12

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A moving account of how a chess team made up of council estate children inspired an entire working-class community to take up the game that had normally been played by those from a more privileged background.


Micklefield School in the heart of a working-class community was inspired by a formidable teacher called Mr. Green who made it his quest to form a chess team that would make the school and the area proud. After two years of...

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