{"product_id":"move-makers-young-leaders-edition-shaun-tracey","title":"Move Makers (Young Leaders Edition) - Shaun Tracey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMove Makers (Young Leaders Edition) by Shaun Tracey\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote - the Young Leaders Edition is aimed at younger readers and has been written for a younger-aged audience. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0478\/2876\/2775\/files\/Move_Makers_-Young_Leaders_Extract.pdf?v=1791985968\" title=\"Link to PDF extract of Move Makers (Young Leaders Edition) by Shaun Tracey\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eClick here\u003c\/a\u003e for a PDF extract from this title.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe story of how a national chess community was built from zero into a federation that delivers a Chess in Education Programme teaching nearly one thousand students weekly, and whose national women’s team \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ewon silver medals in their group on their debut at the 2024 Budapest Chess Olympiad.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2012, Shaun Tracey walked into a public library in the Cayman Islands and asked a simple question: “May I set up a few chessboards on Saturday mornings?” There was no federation. No clubs. No tournaments. No schools programme. Just a room, a handful of chess boards, and a decision to begin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLittle more than a decade later, that first move had grown into a FIDE-affiliated national federation, a Chess in Education programme reaching nearly a thousand children each week, international titles for Cayman Islands players, and a thriving national chess community in which teenagers are already teaching the next generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2024, at the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad in Budapest, the Cayman Islands national women's team made their debut and included four junior players with an average age of twelve and a half. The team won silver medals in its group and raised their national flag on the podium. The Cayman Islands had arrived on the world stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBut this is not really a book about chess. It is about how people build things that outlast them.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the achievements of world champions, innovators, educators and institution-builders – including Garry Kasparov, Sir Demis Hassabis and Tunde Onakoya \u003cspan\u003e–\u003c\/span\u003e as well as the story of building a national chess community from nothing, \u003cem\u003eMove Makers\u003c\/em\u003e distils sixteen disciplines for making better decisions, developing people and building things that last.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs knowledge becomes easier to obtain, judgement becomes the rarer skill. The ability to think clearly, earn trust and develop people has never mattered more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether you are building a business, strengthening a community or transforming an organisation, lasting achievement begins in exactly the same way: with a first move.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe board is bigger than it looks. Make your move.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003eMeet the Move Makers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book contains sixteen profiles and stories from chess, science, education and public life. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eThe Titans – The world’s greatest competitors\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e♟ \u003cstrong\u003eGarry Kasparov – The Relentless Competitor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Thirteenth World Champion and longest-reigning world number one, whose battles with supercomputers defined the man-versus-machine era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e♟ \u003cstrong\u003eViswanathan Anand and the Indian Chess Boom:\u003c\/strong\u003e India’s first grandmaster and five-time World Champion, whose success inspired a chess nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e♟ \u003cstrong\u003eMagnus Carlsen – The Sovereign Champion:\u003c\/strong\u003e World Champion in classical, rapid and blitz chess, who stepped away from defending his classical title at his peak and reshaped the modern game.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e♟ \u003cstrong\u003eJudit Polgár and the Polgár Sisters – Challenging Convention:\u003c\/strong\u003e Raised to test a theory, the sisters won Olympiad gold, while Judit reached the world’s elite as the strongest female player in history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e♟ \u003cstrong\u003eHou Yifan – The Scholar-Queen:\u003c\/strong\u003e Four-time Women’s World Champion who challenged convention, studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and became a university professor at twenty-six.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eThe Innovators – Applying strategic thinking beyond the chessboard\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e♟ \u003cstrong\u003eRalph Leftwich – The Intel Engineer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Semiconductor pioneer turned educator, bringing strategic thinking to children through Chess to Success.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e♟ \u003cstrong\u003eSir Demis Hassabis – The Deepest Mind:\u003c\/strong\u003e AI pioneer whose work helped solve the decades-old protein-structure prediction challenge and earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e♟ \u003cstrong\u003eLevy Rozman and the Streaming Stars – The Digital Reinvention:\u003c\/strong\u003e Creator of YouTube’s largest chess channel, who helped reinvent chess education and entertainment for the digital age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eThe Ambassadors – Building institutions and expanding the game\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e♟ \u003cstrong\u003eDana Reizniece – The Minister of Chess:\u003c\/strong\u003e Woman Grandmaster who became Finance Minister, helped launch Latvia’s first satellite and now serves as Deputy Chair of the FIDE Management 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