The Chess Games Series: Chess Games (ePub)

Don't let your fascination with the beautiful game of Chess fool you - the REAL Chess Games are a violent spectacle!Twelve-year-old Michael Sceptre is suffering from an identity crisis. He is forced to start again and search for a new purpose in life now that his hero, his Father, has died under mysterious circumstances.He reluctantly takes up the game of chess and survives bullying, witchcraft, murder, betrayal, prejudice to represent the Southern Kingdom, in the 20th Chess Games in the Capitol, the heart of Eurikka, a planet that rose from the ruins caused by the deadly Obsidian Plague. The Southern Kingdom has lost 19 times and are weak from paying heavy tributes. They are vulnerable to an invasion. Can Michaels new chess opening, the Sicilian defense, bring victory? A win will change the fortunes of the Southern Kingdom. With clear inspiration from the beautiful game of chess, Simba has created a brilliantly imagined dystopia, where Eurikka, divided by wars into two Kingdoms, uses the Chess Games to avert future wars. To satisfy the bloodthirsty wealthy factions, the poorest faction, Pawns, and prisoners, political enemies, alongside the Chess Games, are thrown into the Chess Arena to battle like gladiators to the death for amusement.Impressive world-building, breathtaking action, and life lessons make this volume, the beginning of a planned trilogy, as good as the Hunger Games or other dystopian novels.The Chess Games captures the enchantment and magic of the game of chess and uses it to teach life lessons.