The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again Audiobook (Free)

“A bravura performance…An entertaining publication” (Kirkus Testimonials) about the dramatic 2016 Globe Chess Tournament between Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Russia’s Sergey Karjakin, which mirrored the world’s geopolitical unrest and rekindled a worldwide fascination with the sport.

The first week of November 2016, a huge selection of people descended on New York City’s South Street Seaport to watch the World Chess Championship between Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Russia’s Sergey Karjakin. By enough time it was over about The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen as well as the Match That Produced Chess Great Once again will be front-page information and believed by many the best finish in chess background.

With both Carlsen and Karjakin just twenty-five years of age, it was the very first time the championship had been waged among those who grew up taking part in chess against computers. Originally from Crimea, Karjakin got lately repatriated to Russia beneath the immediate assistance of Putin. Carlsen, meanwhile, had portrayed admiration for Donald Trump, as well as the 1st move from the competition he performed was called a Trompowsky Strike. Then there is the Russian head of the Globe Chess Federation being barred from attending because of US sanctions, and chess fanatic and Trump adviser Peter Thiel becoming called on to make the honorary first move in sudden death. How the tournament even required unexpected death was a shock. Oddsmakers had provided Carlsen, the defending champ, an eighty percent chance of winning. It could take everything he had to keep his title.

Author Brin-Jonathan Butler was granted unique usage of the two-and-half-week competition and watched every move. The Grandmaster “is certainly not the usual chronicle of the world-championship chess match….Butler presents insight into what must be done to become the very best chess participant on earth…A captivating and provocative look at chess and its metaphorical fight for place and power” (Booklist).