Chess

[Pickles]

I'm in the mood for tales about chess and chess players,
anyone know of any good ones?

[bjortan]

"The Royal Game" by Stefan Zweig.

[papayahed]

In a weird way "the Eight" by Catherine Neville

[nome1486]

Well, I liked the movie The Luzhin Defence, which was apparently based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov called The Defense.

[Nemerov]

The Chess Garden

I don't even remember who wrote it. It's a very bad book. But hey, it's about chess.

[Pickles]

Hey, I know what you mean, sometimes you just gotta read something really bad.


How bad is it? I'm already excited.

[Diceman]

Lewis Carroll's (Alice) Through the Looking Glass should get a mention...

[simon]

Ah yes the famous chess queens. The cartoon movies always combine the chess queens with the Queen of hearts, even though they are in different books. Rather annoying.

There is a musical called Chess, anybody ever heard of it? Other than that I cannot bring to mind any others. What got you on a fanatical chess reading streak? An avid chess fan, or just read one and want another?

[Pickles]

What got you on a fanatical chess reading streak? An avid chess fan, or just read one and want another?

Actually, it was stumbling across this rather simple yet entertaining
web page.


http://www.geocities.com/siliconvall...378/eccent.htm


I am a fan, and play a good game, but no more 30 hours without sleep
chess marathons for me.

Addicted I was, yes.

A woman cured me of that, guess how?

[simon]

Say no more pickles. Engaging avatar by the way.