The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis

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Monday, July 14 through Friday, August 1, 2003. Read by Jim Fleming

The exciting story of an orphan child chess prodigy who competes for the U.S. Open Championship, at the same time growing more and more isolated. This novel by the author of “The Hustler” was first broadcast on Chapter a Day in 1984.

(Vintage; ISBN-10: 1400030609)

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Theme: J.S. Bach: Prelude & Fugue in C from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I; Sviatoslav Richter, piano (RCA Victor Gold Seal LC 0316)

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