Chess Fiction for Fun
Updated 07-22-01
 

The goal of this page is to list Chess related fiction for your more casual reading pleasure.
If you know of any other books to add to our list or if you have read one of the ones listed, please share your thoughts with us about it.
   A thank you to Howard Goldowski for the idea for this page and the initial 9 items for the list.
Date added
The Flanders Panel, Arturo Perez-Reverte.

07-02-01

Chess and the art world combine. This was a NY Times notable book.
The Royal Game, Stephan Zweig.

07-02-01

Short novel about chess obsession.
The Chess Players, unknown author.

07-02-01

Fictional account of Morphy's life.
The Luneburg Variation, Paolo Maurensig.

07-02-01

The Eight, Katherine Neville
 

07-02-01

A computer programmer goes on a mission to find a powerful chess set buried during the 18th century. Story goes back and forth between modern times and the French revolution.  Characters in book are a metaphore for a larger chess game.
The Defense, Vladimir Nabokov.

07-02-01

Movie based on this novel.
Carl Heffner's Love of the Draw, Thomas Glavinic.

07-02-01

Have not read it yet.  About the life of Carl Schlecter.  Review in the current issue of Kingpin.
The 64-square Looking Glass, Ed. Burt Hochberg

07-02-01

Compilation of chess related fiction in literature.  Includes short stories, and excerpts of the chess portions from longer works.
The Queen's Gambit, unknown author.

07-02-01

 

Supposedly about a girl who becomes a chess prodigy.
Incident at the Sicilian Dragon, by William Kent Smith

09-02-01

(saw it at Chess Digest web page)
Under the Black Sun, Eric Woro.

09-02-01

Eric Woro has edited a few books by ICE, and wrote this chess novel in the 90s
Reality Inspector, John Caris

09-02-01

(saw it on Chess Digest web page)