The Edward R. Murrow chess team has won seven national championships, fifteen state titles and sixteen city championships.  The Edward R. Murrow HS chess team's success has been chronicled in "THE KINGS OF NEW YORK: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Geniuses Who Make Up America's Top High School Chess Team", by sportswriter Michael Weinreb.  "The Kings of New York" follows the 2005 championship-winning season of the Murrow Team.  It was reviewed in the March 4, 2007 NY Times Book Review.  The team was personally congratulated by President Bush in the Oval Office on December 15, 2004.  A movie, based on "The Kings of New York" will begin production sometime in 2014.
 
The Kings of New York is a book, written by Michael Weinreb, that follows the day-to-day activities of the Edward R. Murrow High School chess team. The team, which included International Masters Alex Lenderman (who is now a Grandmaster) and SalvijusBercys, was observed for a year starting in September 2005.

Edward R. Murrow High, situated in Brooklyn, USA, allows students the freedom to devote time to projects of their own choosing. Eliot Weiss, a math teacher and chess fanatic, started a chess club, promoted it vigorously in the media, and took it on tour across the USA. In the process he made it one of the best chess teams in the country. The New York Times called the book "thrilling, vigorously reported" and "deeply empathic." It was also named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by Amazon.com, The Christian Science Monitor, and Publishers Weekly.

The Kings of New York won the 2007 Quill Award as best sports book.