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A Game of Blind
Hardcover
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781971325439
Publisher: Kudin & Sons Academic Press
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 180
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Game of Blind is a psychological chess thriller about a forgotten gambling analyst, an unbeatable chess AI, and a match designed to expose a ghost.
Charles Gordon was once one of the most feared minds in American gambling. He could read a player before the cards were turned, catching the small betrayal of a hand, a pause, a breath held too long. To him, every contest had a structure. Every weakness left a sign.
Now Charles lives in poverty, nearly erased from the world that once feared his judgment. His days have grown small and his silences long. His only tenderness is his six-year-old grandson, the one person who still reaches for him without embarrassment or pity.
Then a simple moment breaks him. Charles cannot afford a single scoop of ice cream for the boy.
Far from his dim apartment, a billion-dollar technology company faces a crisis it cannot explain. Its celebrated chess AI, built to defeat any human opponent, is being dismantled online by an unknown player using the name Sauganash. The games are precise, cold, and humiliating. No one can find him. No one can understand how he wins.
To protect the machine and the empire built around it, the company creates a public spectacle: a million-dollar chess match against the reigning human World Champion. But first they need someone who can read what computers miss.
They need Charles Gordon.
The question is not only whether a human mind can still defeat a machine. It is what remains of a man after the world has decided he no longer matters.
There is always one correct move.
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