Author Ben Mezrich has built a career out of stumbling into seemingly impossible stories — including the Harvard kids who broke Vegas, the roommates who built Facebook (which became the movie The Social Network), and the Reddit mob that upended Wall Street. His latest book, Checkmate, out now, began a similar way: a random Google search on a Wednesday morning that led him to a chess tournament in St. Louis, a stunning upset, and an accusation of…
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