As a child, Paul Hoffman escaped from his parents' troubled marriage by losing himself in chess. In his new book King's Gambit, the award-winning author of the international bestseller The Man Who Loved Only Numbers interweaves tales from the history of the game and portraits of contemporary chess wizards into the story of his own attempt to get back into tournament chess as an adult. The author joins Larry Mantle to talk about his book and the complex, obsessive subculture of championship chess.
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