| 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. | |
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| The Flanders Panel, Arturo Perez-Reverte. | |
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07-02-01 |
Chess and the art world combine. This was a NY Times notable book. |
| The Royal Game, Stephan Zweig. | |
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07-02-01 |
Short novel about chess obsession. |
| The Chess Players, unknown author. | |
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07-02-01 |
Fictional account of Morphy's life. |
| The Luneburg Variation, Paolo Maurensig. | |
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07-02-01 |
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| The Eight, Katherine Neville | |
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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. | |
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07-02-01 |
Movie based on this novel. |
| Carl Heffner's Love of the Draw, Thomas Glavinic. | |
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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 | |
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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. | |
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07-02-01
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Supposedly about a girl who becomes a chess prodigy. |
| Incident at the Sicilian Dragon, by William Kent Smith | |
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09-02-01 |
(saw it at Chess Digest web page) |
| Under the Black Sun, Eric Woro. | |
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09-02-01 |
Eric Woro has edited a few books by ICE, and wrote this chess novel in the 90s |
| Reality Inspector, John Caris | |
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09-02-01 |
(saw it on Chess Digest web page) |