Chess crusader is an absolutely fascinating memoir, and most emphatically not only a book for chess players. It reveals how chess is a metaphor for life, and how skills honed at the chess board can be applied in many real-life situations this compelling chronicle takes you from Birmingham to Moscow, and plunges you into the life of an author with a remarkably original mind, while also highlighting the hazards of stealing a half-cooked sausage from a deranged German.It?s a lovely, enthralling account of a colourful life dominated by the black and white squares of the chessboard, and their relation to the wider issues of a troubled childhood and the challenges of work, women, love and loss. It?s a tale of adversity, but also of achievement and new friendships and experiences