Checkmating the Crown: How a Punjabi Servant Defeated the World's Greatest Chess Minds (When an Untrained Outsider Broke the Chess Machine)

Born into a life of hard labor in the sun-baked dust of mitha tiwana, mir sultan khan could neither read nor write. Yet, trapped within an illiterate servant's mind lay one of the most astonishing spatial and tactical intelligences the world has ever witnessed. Brought to london in 1929 by his feudal patron, colonel nawab sir umar hayat khan, sultan khan was thrust abruptly from rural obscurity in...