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Diary of a Chess Queen

✍ Scribed by Alexandra Kosteniuk


Publisher
Mongoose Press
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Leaves
244
Edition
1st
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


Women's World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk chronicles her rise to the top of the chess world in this introspective autobiographical work. Drawing from personal diaries kept during her youth, Kosteniuk takes the reader from the very dawn of her career as a child star in Russia, through triumph and disappointment, and finally to the pinnacle of success on the black-and-white battlefield.


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