A James Kaplan review of the book, "The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Geniuses WHo Make Up America's Top High School Chess Team," in the NYT. For fans of the documentaries Scrabylon and Spellbound, this seems right up your alley.

Quoted: In this thrilling, vigorously reported, deeply empathic book, Michael Weinreb, who has contributed articles about sports to The New York Times and Newsday, brings to vivid life a contemporary chess world suffused with its own updated version of nerd machismo, now wearing sweat pants and basketball sneakers and MP3 earbuds. It’s a world over which the insuperably arrogant boy-ideal of Bobby Fischer still hovers — only now there are girls.