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5/5🌟 Chapin is funny, honest and original while he retells his two year journey across the globe in a mad obsession with the game of chess. This is all told with such a fresh and hilarious voice. I have never played chess before and yet I found myself completely drawn into his story. His search for the meaning of chess intertwined with the meaning of life was completely encapsulating! #bookreview #bookstagram

The author falls in love with chess and his whirlwind adventure begins ,thanks @DoubledayBooks I was lucky to win it from their Facebook book club.

What if you were obsessed with something that you were only middlingly good at?

All The Wrong moves explores Sasha Chapin‘s extreme obsession with chess and his attempts to drastically improve his game to beat a player with a rating of 2000. His journey starts in Thailand and takes him back home to Toronto, then to St. Louis, India and LA. If you like chess at all or want to read a metaphor for your ultimate hobby you will enjoy this book!

”Chess demands the sole ownership of a bunch of brain cells that the post-adolescent mind may have already devoted to the ability to navigate a grocery store lineup without screaming”

This is too relatable! Does this mean I‘ll play better chess on days when I feel like I can‘t handle being at a grocery store? 🙋‍♂️Anyone hate unnecessarily long grocery store line ups as much as me?

My latest #bookhaul are books that I heard about in unusual ways. All The Wrong Moves, a chess memoir, kept showing up on my instagram ads (targeted ads McClelland & Stewart?). Someone Who Will Love You is by the creator of Bojack Horseman (why does it feel so good to watch something so existentially depressing?). I heard an author interview for Because Internet on the Book Riot main podcast (maybe I‘ll finally understand early 20-somethings).