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The Mind's Gambit
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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 stone tables of Manhattan - Mourad Bouajaja examines the human cost behind the sixty-four squares: the tyranny of the rating number, the myth of the "mad genius," the women pushed to the margins of the game, the children burning out under adult ambition, the neurodivergent minds the chess world quietly relies on, and the perfect, inhuman engine now in every player's pocket. Part memoir, part investigation, part call for change, the book uses chess as a lens on something larger: how the institutions we build to measure us - ratings, rankings, metrics of every kind - too often rank and fail the very people inside them. No chess knowledge is required.
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