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Pickles
08-13-2004, 08:50 AM
I'm in the mood for tales about chess and chess players,
anyone know of any good ones?
bjortan
08-13-2004, 10:28 AM
"The Royal Game" by Stefan Zweig.
papayahed
08-13-2004, 02:16 PM
In a weird way "the Eight" by Catherine Neville
nome1486
08-15-2004, 08:05 PM
Well, I liked the movie The Luzhin Defence, which was apparently based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov called The Defense.
Nemerov
08-18-2004, 03:25 PM
The Chess Garden

I don't even remember who wrote it. It's a very bad book. But hey, it's about chess.
Pickles
08-18-2004, 03:34 PM
Hey, I know what you mean, sometimes you just gotta read something really bad.


How bad is it? I'm already excited.
Diceman
08-18-2004, 08:39 PM
Lewis Carroll's (Alice) Through the Looking Glass should get a mention...
simon
08-20-2004, 02:01 AM
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
08-20-2004, 10:27 AM
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/siliconvalley/lab/7378/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? :brow:
simon
08-26-2004, 05:20 PM
Say no more pickles. Engaging avatar by the way.