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What's a GOOD work that features chess motifs?
Picture unrelated though the twilight cover design is actually quite good...

>> No.2160049

>>2160039
HA! I saw your mistake, that mispost. Don't think you can just get away with it so easily, so casually!

I am outing you!

>> No.2160052

>>2160049
>outing
I would've thought the OP's pic did it already.

>> No.2160088

>>2160049
I made a mistake. Sue me.
>>2160052
I'm here, I'm queer, get used to it etcetra etcetra.

>> No.2160107

Stefan Zweig - A Chess Story/The Royal Game (alternate titles)
Nabokov - The Luzhin Defence

I'd be interested as well in any others people might know.

>> No.2160111

Didn't Perec write that novel where each chapter describes what is happening in a different square/room of an apartment block and the novel progresses through the rooms as though the building were a chess board or some shit?

>> No.2160124

Have you read "Through the Looking Glass" OP?

>> No.2160125

>>2160124
>>2160124

This.

>> No.2160132
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Anthology of SF stories themed around chess. Picked it up at a convention as a present for my brother, a chess nut.

http://www.librarything.com/work/215921

>> No.2160134

Middleton - Women Beware Women

>> No.2160179

Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep features the chess board as a pretty big symbol.

>> No.2160180

Not actually chess, but Iain M. Banks' Player of Games is pretty good.

>> No.2160183
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>>2160179
I'm reading Farewell My Lovely. Shit is awesome. Chandler is as American as a sawed off shotgun.

>> No.2160220

When I was about 10 I was obsessed with chess and I read a kids' story that was based on a chess game. All I remember is that the setting was a battle between two medieval kings and that the rooks were talking birds (you know, rooks).

>> No.2160222

The names of the novels in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles all share a chess theme (Game of Kings, Queen's Play, Disorderly Knights, Pawn in Frankincense, Ringed Castle, Checkmate), and the fourth novel includes a climactic chess game.

Also, "You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life."

>> No.2160230

The Seventh Seal

It's a movie, does it count?

>> No.2160284

Samuel Beckett's "Engdame"

>> No.2160343

>>2160183
isn't that a russian shotgun?

>> No.2160364

>>2160343
>filename
>Franchi
>Russian
Somebody's not from /k/
If you really have no idea, they're Italian. Owned by Beretta.

>> No.2160867

>>2160132
good call on this.

>> No.2160874
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If you're into comics, read Low Moon by Jason. It's a "chess western" - ie they play chess instead of duelling.

Everything Jason makes is quality.

>> No.2161586

Katherine Neville's "The Eight" was pretty good.

>> No.2161590

>>2160364
>Somebody's not from /k/
Thank god.