ALL THE WRONG MOVES

• If Gold and Silver National Magazine Award-winning journalist Sasha Chapin could have chosen a different path in life he would have become a chess genius – instead, Chapin gives us the glorious Love and Losing, a meditation on the two years he travelled the world pursuing his dream of playing chess professionally
• In sparkling prose, Chapin reflects on his lifelong relationship with chess, first as his refuge, through adolescence and his early twenties shaped by a struggle with bipolar disorder, chess, a “perfect information game,” captivated him, and a decade later, his passion for chess rekindled, becoming an obsession and then a full-fledged addiction
• For readers of William Finnegan's Barbarian Days and Stefan Fastis's Word Freak, Chapin asks, “should we live our lives in the service of what is comfortably attainable, or thrillingly impossible?”