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Sultan A: Endgame of Empire

Endgame of Empire

Sultan Khan, Asia's First Grandmaster

Prologue: Black and White vii A Son Remembers xi Introduction: Threading the Needle 1 PART I. EARLY MOVES: FAITH AND FINDING ONESELF 1. Seeking Serenity 13 2. Family Gambit 20 3. O Fortuna! 28 4. Victory on Home Turf 38 PART II. WINNING MOVES: THE EMERGENCE OF A MASTER 5. Empire’s Worst Knight-mare 51 6. Continental Drift 65 7. The Game of the Year 79 8. The Outsider 87 9. Starry Night 100 PART III. SILENT MOVES: A LEGACY UNFOLDS 10. The Return of a Champion 115 11. Chess and Chance 129 12. The Aftergame: Picking Up the Pieces 134 Epilogue: Stepping into Color 141 Acknowledgments 145 Appendix: Sultan Khan’s Greatest Games Annotated by GM Sam Shankland Sultan Khan—José Raúl Capablanca, Hastings, 1930 149 Victor Ivanovich Soultanbeieff—Sultan Khan, Liege, 1930 154 Sultan Khan—Frank Marshall, Liege, 1930 158 Sultan Khan—Akiba Rubinstein, Prague, 1931 161 Sultan Khan—Salo Flohr, London, 1932 166 Savielly Tartakower—Sultan Khan, Semmering, 1931 171 Notes 177 Bibliography 199 Index 211

'Mezrich's books are the sort of engrossing reads you pick up in the airport then find the blockbuster film on the plane' - Evening Standard In September 2022, the chess world watched in disbelief as Magnus Carlsen, widely considered the greatest player in history, faced an unthinkable defeat against the nineteen-year-old American upstart, Hans Niemann. When Carlsen withdrew from the prestigious Sinquefield Cup and subtly accused Niemann of cheating, shockwaves hit the chess community, igniting the biggest scandal in the sport's history. Checkmate dives deep into this modern-day drama, tracing the parallel rises of Carlsen, the stoic virtuoso, and Niemann, the fiery disruptor. Niemann denied the accusations, even as past online cheating incidents surfaced, while powerful entities like Chess.com, a billion-dollar online arena, became entangled in the escalating controversy. As the scandal went viral, it became clear that more was at stake than a single game. Checkmate is a story of ambition, genius and greed set against the backdrop of a once-niche game exploding into a global, multi-billion-dollar phenomenon. It's a compelling exploration of a world where tradition collides with innovation, and a new generation, forged in the digital age, threatens to upend everything.

Genius, Scandal and the Billion-Dollar Rise of Chess

Checkmate

Uncrowned Chess Champions - Akiba Rubinstein

How Chess Teaches Us to Win in the Boardroom&nbsp;By deeply observing the 64 squares of the chessboard, the different pieces and the variety of playing styles, one can learn many ways to succeed in business: strategies, tactics, and having the right mindset. A universe of knowledge about business, management, marketing and entrepreneurship is hidden within the game of chess, a pastime which has influenced humankind more than any other.&nbsp;This is the third book authored by Zeev Zohar, an experienced and respected businessman and director of public companies, who is also known as a chess player and an international chess author who has won prestigious awards, competed in international tournaments and played against some of the biggest names in the chess world (including a draw against a former world champion in a simultaneous display). In this book, which is the first of its kind, he assembles his personal and global insights taken from the game that has captivated his heart and explains how they can be translated into success in business.

Win at Work with Lessons from the Chessboard

Business Checkmate

The first detailed and comprehensively researched biography of the heir apparent to the Djokovic-Nadal-Federer era. A deeply researched biography of the new (smiley) face of tennis. A global star who has achieved more than Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer did by this stage of their careers. At just 19 years old, Carlos Alcaraz won the US Open and became the youngest ever men's world number one. At only 21, he already had four Grand Slam titles. For Alcaraz, everything - from his charm to his star power to his tennis mojo - starts with a smile. But there is a more complex character behind the smile. One who grew up in modest circumstances in a small village in Murcia in southern Spain. A man with strong family traditions who has a tattoo of his grandfather's favorite saying - 'cabeza, corazon y cojones' (brain, heart and balls) - inked on his left wrist. Mark Hodgkinson talks to those who know Alcaraz best - including his coaches, old teachers and competitors - to provide a fascinating insight into a showman with ambitions of becoming the GOAT, the greatest of all time.

The Man Behind the Smile – Shortlisted for Charles Tyrwhitt International Sports Book of the Year 2026

Being Carlos Alcaraz

Winner of the International Book Award at the 2026 Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards'One of the most incredible and moving books that we've read, ever.' The High Performance PodcastSitting in the prison classroom each morning, reading the pages in my book, listening to the teacher, I could feel myself slowing down. I had achieved greatness. I had won three Wimbledon titles, two Aussie Opens, the US Open, two Davis Cups, an Olympic gold medal.But where was I now?Either I was some strange exception, a great man surrounded by lesser men, or I was not an exception at all. I fitted right in. And if I did, why was that?Wimbledon champion at 17, six-time Grand Slam winner and former world number one - Boris Becker achieved unparalleled success, fame and wealth throughout his tennis career. But in April 2022, everything changed when he was sentenced to 30 months in prison over bankruptcy charges.Inside offers a raw and unflinching account of Becker's life behind bars, detailing the brutal realities of surviving two of the UK's toughest prisons and the unexpected lessons in resilience that kept him going. Stripped of fame and fortune, Becker faced an entirely new world as inmate A2923EV, where nothing came easy.More than a story of survival, Inside is about profound transformation. With brutal honesty, Becker reflects on the choices that led him to prison, confronting his mistakes and the price of fame. Through new relationships, hard-learned survival skills and the philosophy of Stoicism, he embarks on the difficult journey of rebuilding his life and shattered reputation.This is the story of a legend who lost it all - how he survived, started again and found light in life's darkest moments.'It's a memoir, it's a thriller, it's a confessional, it's therapy. This book is unbelievable, [and] beautifully written. It couldn't be a crazier story...it's so gripping, I could not put it down.' Chris Evans

Winning. Losing. Starting Again

Inside

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHARLES TYRWHITT SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2026 Idol. Legend. Enigma. For the first time, one of the all-time greatest sportsmen is finally ready to share his astonishing story: the long-awaited tell-all memoir from Björn Borg. 'a shockingly revelatory insight' - The Times 'The tennis star retired too early, overdosed on drugs, was serially unfaithful and has been battling cancer. His memoir, Heartbeats, is wild' - The Telegraph No one had ever played tennis quite like Björn Borg. With his incredible athleticism, powerful shot-making and distinctive style, he became a sensation after he burst onto the scene aged just 15. As he ascended to the pinnacle of men's tennis, Borg experienced unprecedented stardom and success that changed the game forever. Hailed as one of the most talented players to ever step onto a tennis court, Borg collected the game's highest honours, including eleven Grand Slam titles - with five consecutive Wimbledon titles - establishing himself as one of the greatest of all time. Then he stunned the sporting world by announcing his retirement at the age of 26 and disappeared from tennis. After all these years of silence, Borg is ready to share everything. In this candid memoir, Borg takes us through all the major moments in his career, shares insights into his rivalry with John McEnroe - considered one of the best in the sport's history - and their legendary 1980 Wimbledon final, and explains his shock retirement. Borg writes candidly about his personal life - for so long kept under wraps - including his childhood, his early stardom and his uncomfortable relationship with fame, alongside all the highs and lows of his unmatched career. For the first time, readers will get Borg's own account of his career, his choices, and the experiences that shaped him as a person, from his childhood right up to today. This look behind the curtain at an enigmatic player who has fascinated generations of tennis fans, is ultimately a fascinating look at the making of sporting legend and, for readers who know nothing about tennis, a rare glimpse into an extraordinary, compelling life.

A Memoir

Heartbeats

A bottle of perfume has never fired a shot. And yet it has emptied treasuries, ended dynasties, funded a thirty year manhunt through the forests of southern India, and helped bring down colonial governors who never once smelled the flower that ruined them. This is not a book about fragrance. It is a book about what people will do to control it. In 1792, a defeated king looked at the sandalwood trees growing wild across his shrinking kingdom and declared them property of the crown. That single decision outlived his throne, outlived the empire that conquered him, and is still, in a modern Indian state government office today, generating arguments nobody has fully resolved. In between, it produced Veerappan, a forest bandit so feared that he once brought two state governments to their knees by kidnapping a beloved film star and vanishing into terrain no army could search. That is only one thread. Follow another south to the Dutch East India Company, whose governor general ordered the near total destruction of an island population so that a single trading company could own, for a hundred and eighty years, the entire global supply of a fragrant nutmeg found nowhere else on earth. Follow another north to the Bulgarian valley where roses grown for European perfumers were caught in the tax crisis that helped ignite a national uprising and, eventually, a massacre that shocked Victorian Britain into abandoning its oldest ally. Follow another out to sea, where a waxy grey lump vomited up by a sperm whale still trades today for more than its weight in gold, in a black market so tangled that a fisherman's lucky beach find in Sri Lanka can become, within days, a federal seizure in Mumbai. Drusilla Nightham has spent years tracing the specific, stubborn economics behind five thousand years of human obsession with smelling beautiful, and what she found again and again is the same brutal arithmetic. A fragrant material grows in one place and nowhere else. Whoever controls that place gains a kind of power no elected official, no colonial administrator, and no modern anti corruption bureau has ever fully learned how to contain. The glovemakers of a French tannery town who accidentally invented the modern perfume industry. The chemist who broke a five thousand year old musk monopoly by accident while trying to build a better explosive. The women of Somaliland who now dominate the world's oldest resin trade because the men would not commit to the patient, punishing hours the work demands. Every one of them appears in these pages, grounded in real archives, real court records, and real, documented history, told with the pace and tension of a story you will not want to put down. This is narrative history written for readers who loved Salt, Cod, and The Wager, readers who want their nonfiction to move like a thriller and land like a gut punch of a true story. Twelve chapters. Five continents. Two centuries of monopolies, massacres, and manhunts, all in pursuit of a smell. Open the first page. You will not close it until the last one.

Scent Trade Rivalries That Toppled Provincial Governors

THE PERFUME WARS

Lando Norris: Road to World Champion tells the incredible story of the 2025 championship campaign and what it takes to win. Featuring a race-by-race rundown alongside over 100 stunning full-colour photographs. 'Relive the euphoric highs and the gut-wrenching lows of one of the most dramatic title fights in F1 history. Nate Saunders pens an outstanding blow-by-blow account of Lando Norris' remarkable journey to world championship glory in the face of adversity' - Lawrence Barretto, F1's Lead Correspondent and Channel 4's F1 Reporter 'With customary wit and warmth, Nate Saunders brilliantly retells the story of a season that defied all expectations...' - Alex Jacques, Author of Grid to Glory Lando Norris: Road to World Champion charts his extraordinary rise to become motorsport's 2025 standout star. From a shy, gaming-obsessed teenager to Britain's newest Formula One World Champion, Norris' journey is anything but straightforward. Despite starting out as an early fan favourite at McLaren - funny, relatable and refreshingly vulnerable - questions persisted about whether he had the ruthlessness required to reach the sport's summit. But now, after recently becoming the Winner of the Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year Award and gaining an F1 title win, it seems like the only way is up for Norris. Here, Formula One journalist Nate Saunders of ESPN - a leading global multiplatform sports brand - reveals that Norris's story is ultimately one of perseverance and authenticity. The dramatic 2025 title fight, against teammate Oscar Piastri and the formidable Max Verstappen, pushed him harder than ever and went down to the last second, but in the pressure cooker of Abu Dhabi he proved his mettle. In a full-colour celebration featuring over 100 photographs, Nate Saunders traces Lando's journey to win the title and offers insider access to how he rewrote the script for what a champion can look like. This is the race-by-race story of a young man who faced his fears, silenced the doubters and won the biggest prize in motorsport - his way.

Road to World Champion

Lando Norris

France's all-time record goalscorer Real Madrid's Galáctico Star of the 2026 World Cup This is the story of Kylian Mbappé. In Kylian Mbappé: The Definitive Biography, Julien Laurens, the world's leading French football journalist, paints a vivid portrait of Mbappé's meteoric rise to global stardom. With unprecedented access to the player's friends, coaches and teammates, Julien crafts an intimate account of Kylian's life, exploring his humble upbringing in the suburbs of Paris and schooling at the famed Clairefontaine academy, his peerless rise with AS Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain, as well as his dream move to Real Madrid where his career has reached new heights. From winning the 2018 World Cup at just 19 years old to valiantly losing against Lionel Messi's Argentina in the 2022 World Cup Final and staring at the 2026 World Cup in the USA, Mexico and Canada, Julien constructs a compelling biography of the world's greatest footballer. Described as: 'Authoritative' Sam Wallace 'Illuminating' Joey D'Urso 'Sharp' Guillem Balague

The Definitive Biography of the World Cup Star

Kylian Mbappe

A season with F1's most thrilling team - Perfect Father's Day gift

Inside Red Bull Racing

The #1 International bestseller'A portrait of a man who, partly through design, partly through bloody-mindedness, always seemed destined for greatness' Observer'Shipnuck produces a rich, nuanced picture' Wall Street JournalThe definitive biography of Rory McIlroy, the most important, popular and confounding player of the post-Tiger era.Rory McIlroy contains multitudes. The child of a working-class family from a small town in a war-torn homeland now commutes to work in his own private jet and counts billionaires as confidants. He can overwhelm a golf course with his transcendent talent and then, at the next tournament, look utterly lost. In the same press conference, he can be golf's most eloquent ambassador and a trash-talking troll.McIlroy's victory at the 2025 Masters Tournament packed such an emotional punch because he is golf's most vulnerable superstar. Across two decades as a pro he has been the anti-Tiger, letting fans into his heart and into his world. When McIlroy collapsed onto the final green at Augusta National, having finally completed the career Grand Slam, golf fans cried along with him because so many saw themselves in his struggles.Known as the most fearless writer on the golf beat for over thirty years, Alan Shipnuck traces McIlroy's evolution from a young Northern Irish phenom to a game-changing force. Rory brings to life the heartbreaks, triumphs, tabloid romance, business disputes, and divisive politicking to fully define one of golf's all-time great players.'Offers a deep dive into one of the PGA tour's most passionate players' Rolling StoneAlan Shipnuck, New York Times and Irish Times bestseller, April 2026

The Heartache and Triumph of Golf's Most Human Superstar

Rory

'Susie is one of a kind. Her resilience, determination and brilliance have broken down barriers and made her the inspiration she is today. Susie's story is a powerful one for anyone hoping to understand what it takes to succeed against the odds, while staying true to yourself.' - LEWIS HAMILTON A Sunday Times bestselling inside look at the ultra-competitive world of Formula One and trailblazer Susie Wolff's 20-year career, taking readers from the driver's seat and the F1 paddock all the way to the future of the sport. From the moment her parents first sat her in a go-kart, Susie Wolff felt it - the thrill of speed, the spark of something bigger. Her dream of one day racing Formula One cars grew and grew, as did her determination. But Formula One is one of the most mentally and physically gruelling sports in the world. Turning a corner can feel like four times your body weight is pressing against you. You need mental grit and physical heft. And as Susie rose through the ranks of motorsport, one truth became impossible to ignore: she was almost always the only woman on the grid. Despite challenges, and after years of sacrifice and doubt, Susie became the first woman in more than two decades to take part in a Formula One race weekend. When her racing chapter ended, she realised she wasn't ready to walk away from the sport she loved. And so she turned her mind to first transforming a struggling Formula E team and, later, leading F1 Academy, inspiring young women who have discovered the thrill of speed via Netflix's Drive to Survive, to progress to the highest ranks of Formula 1. In Driven, Susie lifts the bonnet for the first time on her extraordinary life, including her relationship with her husband Toto. From the driver's seat of the racing car to the heart of the F1 paddock, this is a rare, first-hand view into the inner workings of motorsport at its highest level, told with clarity and grace.

The inspirational Memoir from the Formula One Trailblazer, as seen on Netflix’s Drive to Survive

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