Dark Squares: How Chess Saved My Life: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Dark Squares: How Chess Saved My Life audiobook runs 12 hours unabridged, narrated by Danny Rensch (about 8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 12 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 24 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 12 hours, it runs longer than 90% of the 10,266 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.
About as long, on the Memoirs shelf
988 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Dark Squares: How Chess Saved My Life is an audiobook by Danny Rensch: a 12-hour unabridged recording, read by Danny Rensch, released September 16, 2025, on the Memoirs and Business shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12 hrs
- Narrated by
- Danny Rensch
- Released
- September 16, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Memoirs, Business, Non-Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781668647585
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Dark Squares: How Chess Saved My Life audiobook?
Dark Squares: How Chess Saved My Life runs 12 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8 hours.
Is the Dark Squares: How Chess Saved My Life audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Dark Squares: How Chess Saved My Life?
Dark Squares: How Chess Saved My Life is narrated by Danny Rensch.
Is Dark Squares: How Chess Saved My Life worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8 hours, saving 4 hours.