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topic: How many books can you name that have written about a chess game in the plot?





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message 5: by Matt (new)
Aug 19, 2009 07:07PM

1779642 I just wrote one - The Pride and the Sorrow - about the life of Paul Morphy :-)

Morphy was chess world champion in the 1850s - aged only twenty-one - but died young. He gave birth to modern chess as a 'fast game'! http://www.mattfullerty.com

Here's a great list of other 'chess novels' or 'novels with a chess plot': http://www.amazon.com/Chess-Fiction-Wort...

And this is a very good debate and round-up of novels missing from the above this: http://www.chesscircle.net/forums/genera...

Enjoy!
Matt


message 4: by Rowena (new)
Aug 03, 2008 04:17AM

717257 They played human chess in Alice in Wonderland, too.


message 3: by Janie (new)
Aug 02, 2008 10:12PM

1166959 In the movie 'Kingdom of Heaven' the king with Leporasy played chess while the young blacksmith watched.




message 2: by Rowena (new)
Jun 12, 2008 05:01AM

717257 Harry Potter... Ron Weasley played a really good game of wizards' chess.

My books, especially FORCED MATE where the heroine keeps the hero up all night playing chess to distract him from lustful advances.

All my titles, Forced Mate, Mating Net, Insufficient Mating Material, Knight's Fork... are chess positions or moves.

:-)


message 1: by Janie (new)
May 31, 2008 10:15AM

1166959 If I remember correctly, my first guess would be a Sherlock Holmes read. I will have to go back and try to remember which one. Unless someone else thinks of it!..lol..

The screenplay for the movie "One night with the King" they played HUMAN chess in the garden labyrinth!

Any others?


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