Brazilian Grandmaster

A new book chronicles the life of Henrique Costa Mecking, known as Mequinho, Brazil's first homegrown international chess grandmaster who abandoned the game in the late 1970s due to illness and embraced faith. Titled 'Entre Bispos e Reis,' the work by journalist Uirá Machado blends biography with insights into elite chess. It explores how Mequinho's diagnosis of myasthenia gravis led him to the Catholic Charismatic Renewal.