The Inner Game

'A wonderful achievement... so tense, so gripping and so readable' STEPHEN FRY

'A remarkable book - The Inner Game has all the compulsion of a good thriller' ROBERT HARRIS

***

The 1993 World Chess Championship was one of the most eagerly anticipated clashes in the game's rich history.

On one side was Garri Kasparov, the greatest in a long line of Russian World Champions and a player whose remorseless aggression both in play and in person seemed to terrify his opponents.

Across the board was Nigel Short, a bespectacled, guitar-playing 28-year-old Lancastrian who had earned his place in the contest over a gruelling three-year qualification campaign.

Their epic duel of the intellect was fought out in the full glare of the world's media and the intricacies of the battle captivated observers around the world - chess experts and novices alike.

The Inner Game is an intimate and gripping insider's account of this unique sporting contest. It reveals the secrets of chess at the highest level, from dirty tricks behind the scenes to bugged conversations, stolen tapes and sexual intrigue, and opens up the strange inner world of the Chess Grandmasters, men of a narrow but all-consuming passion.

***

'Gripping narrative... absorbing between-the-synapses account of an epic drama to which (Lawson) had unique access' Sunday Times

'Brilliantly written' Guardian

'Perhaps the most intimate portrait of a chess genius ever written' ROBERT HARRIS

'Lawson creates great drama out of his material... the tension is brilliantly sustained. And no, you don't have to be a chess expert or even to have played the game at all to enjoy this book' Independent on Sunday

'A riveting narrative' Observer

'Immensely readable... The characters come through very precisely' Daily Telegraph

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The Inner Game

'A wonderful achievement... so tense, so gripping and so readable' STEPHEN FRY

'A remarkable book - The Inner Game has all the compulsion of a good thriller' ROBERT HARRIS

***

The 1993 World Chess Championship was one of the most eagerly anticipated clashes in the game's rich history.

On one side was Garri Kasparov, the greatest in a long line of Russian World Champions and a player whose remorseless aggression both in play and in person seemed to terrify his opponents.

Across the board was Nigel Short, a bespectacled, guitar-playing 28-year-old Lancastrian who had earned his place in the contest over a gruelling three-year qualification campaign.

Their epic duel of the intellect was fought out in the full glare of the world's media and the intricacies of the battle captivated observers around the world - chess experts and novices alike.

The Inner Game is an intimate and gripping insider's account of this unique sporting contest. It reveals the secrets of chess at the highest level, from dirty tricks behind the scenes to bugged conversations, stolen tapes and sexual intrigue, and opens up the strange inner world of the Chess Grandmasters, men of a narrow but all-consuming passion.

***

'Gripping narrative... absorbing between-the-synapses account of an epic drama to which (Lawson) had unique access' Sunday Times

'Brilliantly written' Guardian

'Perhaps the most intimate portrait of a chess genius ever written' ROBERT HARRIS

'Lawson creates great drama out of his material... the tension is brilliantly sustained. And no, you don't have to be a chess expert or even to have played the game at all to enjoy this book' Independent on Sunday

'A riveting narrative' Observer

'Immensely readable... The characters come through very precisely' Daily Telegraph

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The Inner Game

The Inner Game

by Dominic Lawson
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'A wonderful achievement... so tense, so gripping and so readable' STEPHEN FRY

'A remarkable book - The Inner Game has all the compulsion of a good thriller' ROBERT HARRIS

***

The 1993 World Chess Championship was one of the most eagerly anticipated clashes in the game's rich history.

On one side was Garri Kasparov, the greatest in a long line of Russian World Champions and a player whose remorseless aggression both in play and in person seemed to terrify his opponents.

Across the board was Nigel Short, a bespectacled, guitar-playing 28-year-old Lancastrian who had earned his place in the contest over a gruelling three-year qualification campaign.

Their epic duel of the intellect was fought out in the full glare of the world's media and the intricacies of the battle captivated observers around the world - chess experts and novices alike.

The Inner Game is an intimate and gripping insider's account of this unique sporting contest. It reveals the secrets of chess at the highest level, from dirty tricks behind the scenes to bugged conversations, stolen tapes and sexual intrigue, and opens up the strange inner world of the Chess Grandmasters, men of a narrow but all-consuming passion.

***

'Gripping narrative... absorbing between-the-synapses account of an epic drama to which (Lawson) had unique access' Sunday Times

'Brilliantly written' Guardian

'Perhaps the most intimate portrait of a chess genius ever written' ROBERT HARRIS

'Lawson creates great drama out of his material... the tension is brilliantly sustained. And no, you don't have to be a chess expert or even to have played the game at all to enjoy this book' Independent on Sunday

'A riveting narrative' Observer

'Immensely readable... The characters come through very precisely' Daily Telegraph


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781913727109
Publisher: Silvertail Books
Publication date: 11/18/2021
Pages: 284
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Dominic Lawson is best known as a former newspaper editor and now weekly leader page columnist for the Sunday Times and Daily Mail. But chess is his passion, as he demonstrated with several series as the presenter of Across the Board for BBC Radio 4, in which he simultaneously interviewed and played against such giants of the game as Magnus Carlsen, Garry Kasparov, and the world's strongest woman player, Hou Yifan. Since 2014 he has been the elected president of the English Chess Federation.

Simon Vance is the critically acclaimed narrator of approximately 400 audiobooks, winner of 27 AudioFile Earphones Awards, and a 12-time Audie Award-winner. He won an Audie in 2006 in the category of Science Fiction and was named the 2011 Best Voice in Biography and History and in 2010 Best Voice in Fiction by AudioFile magazine.

Vance has been a narrator for the past 25 years, and also worked for many years as a BBC Radio presenter and newsreader in London. Some of his best-selling and most praised audiobook performances include Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies (an Audie award-winner), Ian Fleming's Casino Royale, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander series (all 21 titles), the new productions of Frank Herbert's original Dune series, and Rob Gifford's China Road (an AudioFile 2007 Book of the Year). Vance lives near San Francisco with his wife and two sons.

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