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The Mind's Gambit

Mourad Bouajaja

The Mind's Gambit is a sociologist's unflinching look at what competitive chess does to the people who play it. Drawing on more than two decades in child protection and mental health - and a lifetime at the board, from a coffee house in Tunisia to the...

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Introduction

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Preface

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Chapter One — The Constant

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Chapter Two — The Number

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Chapter Three — Brilliance That Bleeds

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Chapter Four — The Queen's Burden

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Chapter Five — The Youngest Pawns

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Chapter Six — The Pattern Seekers

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Chapter Seven — Medicine on 64 Squares

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Chapter Eight — The Mind's Gambit Empirical Study

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Chapter Nine — The Ghost in the Machine

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Chapter Ten — The Tragic Endgame of Daniel Naroditsky

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Chapter Eleven — The House That Measures Everything

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Chapter Twelve — The Open Position

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Bibliography

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Afterword

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