Smith: The Grandmaster (hardcover) VisibleForUsers true a FIDE Master with two

a FIDE Master with two International Master norms

While most chess players know how to trade pieces

French and Caro-Kann defenses among others

He worked as a second for world champion Vladimir Kramnik

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Smith: The Grandmaster (hardcover) VisibleForUsers true a FIDE Master with twoA story only a real Grandmaster could tell. Lukas lives for chess. When he leaves Sweden for an island off the coast of Saint Petersburg, he vows to sacrifice everything for one goal: the Grandmaster title. Friendships falter, love slips away, and his hunger for victory turns inward. Every move brings him closer to either triumph or collapse. The Grandmaster is a powerful novel of ambition, obsession, and the fragile boundary between brilliance and