THE SACRIFICE VARIATION

Everyone in Indian chess knows Devraj Rathore threw the biggest match of his life and vanished in disgrace. Everyone knows his son should stay away from a chessboard.
Aditya Rathore has never believed the story. So he enters the same circuit that destroyed his father, chasing one thing: a message hidden inside an old chess set, written in a language only a Rathore could read.
What he finds isn't a confession. It's a sacrifice. And the men who called his father a villain have spent twenty years protecting the real one.