Decide Your Destiny: Checkmate
An interactive chess mystery for readers ages 7-12, with over 12 endings.
The sign on the door of the Old Tower Chess Club finally tells the truth: CLOSED. Nico has played there every Tuesday for two years, and today Mr. Rufo, eighty-two years old and steadier than anyone, is taking the photographs down off the walls.
But the locked storeroom at the back has been hiding something for forty years: a game that was never finished, a board with a piece that should not exist, and the name of the girl who once beat every player in the city.
In this book, you are the one who decides. Every choice sends you to a different section, and every section changes the story. Help empty the storeroom or search the display cases, follow the trail through Mirror Alley, and find out what really happened the night the game stopped.
Inside this adventure:
- Over 12 different endings to find, so the book can be read again and again.
- Six chess challenges woven into the story. No experience needed: every rule is explained right before you need it.
- A mistake never ends the game. A wrong move simply opens a harder path.
- Full-color illustrations throughout.
- Short, fast-moving sections that work beautifully for reluctant readers.
Decide Your Destiny is a series of interactive adventures for young readers, where the story never goes the same way twice. Perfect for chess clubs, classrooms, long trips, and any child who would rather play a book than simply read one.
