About this Book

Engaging Pieces is a celebration of chess journalism at its best. Here, in one volume, is a collection of interviews with some of the most charismatic personalities of the chess world: Michael de la Maza (who gained over 700 USCF rating points in 700 days), Mig Greengard (one of the world's best chess journalists), Hikaru Nakamura (the rising American star), Jen Shahade (two-time US Women's Champion and author of Chess Bitch), Team Hydra (the brains behind the world's strongest chess computer), plus many others. Rounding out the book is a collection of six chess-related short stories and four chess-related articles.