Books with "Living Chess"
- Description
- Books in which characters take the roles of chess pieces in combat, intrigue, or even dance.
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7,784 membres
124 critiques
4
Score 34.09
Ajouté 2012-01-10, 02:16 PM
- 9 Members
- Edward, hailelib, foggidawn, paradoxosalpha, ijustgetbored, prosfilaes, norabelle414, souloftherose, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explications
- paradoxosalpha: Like Poliphilo, Alice plays chess in her dreams.
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133,059 membres
2,046 critiques
½ 4.3
Score 18.73
Ajouté 2012-01-10, 03:20 PM
- 5 Members
- hailelib, foggidawn, prosfilaes, norabelle414, souloftherose
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5,024 membres
48 critiques
½ 3.7
Score 9.82
Ajouté 2012-01-10, 02:16 PM
- 3 Members
- paradoxosalpha, ijustgetbored, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explications
- paradoxosalpha: Clearly derived from the Hypnerotomachia.
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de Bilge Karasu
86 membres
1 critique
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Score 5.92
Ajouté 2022-02-08, 03:06 AM
- 2 Members
- paradoxosalpha, spiphany
- Explications
- paradoxosalpha: I haven't read this one yet, but I must!
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1,460 membres
15 critiques
½ 3.5
Score 5.87
Ajouté 2012-01-10, 02:17 PM
- 2 Members
- hailelib, paradoxosalpha
- Explications
- paradoxosalpha: It's Martian chess, or Jetan, of course--but the title still says "Chessmen." A seminal living chess arena battle.
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- 2 Members
- paradoxosalpha, norabelle414
- Explications
- paradoxosalpha: Features an enigmatic ages-spanning conspiracy constructed around chess.
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757 membres
9 critiques
4
Score 3.36
Ajouté 2012-01-10, 02:15 PM
- Member
- paradoxosalpha
- Explications
- paradoxosalpha: Probably the earliest instance of the trope: the chess ballet in the court of Queen Eleuterylida.
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- Member
- spiphany
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- Member
- sandstone78
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- Member
- paradoxosalpha
- Explications
- paradoxosalpha: Takes place in the "Antipodes," an island country populated by animate game pieces.
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de Len Deighton
787 membres
13 critiques
½ 3.7
Score 2.68
Ajouté 2023-09-22, 10:00 AM
- Member
- paradoxosalpha
- Explications
- paradoxosalpha: Epigrams for each chapter give the chess perspective. The earliest espionage-as-chess novel?
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- Member
- paradoxosalpha
- Explications
- paradoxosalpha: Unfortunately, the chess adventure was over by the end of the eighth chapter out of twenty.
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1,135 membres
75 critiques
4.1
Score 2.25
Ajouté 2023-11-21, 12:12 PM
- Member
- paradoxosalpha
- Explications
- paradoxosalpha: Riffing on Through the Looking-Glass, this volume finds September promoted from Knight to Bishop, now in her "slantwise" struggle with the Queen of Fairyland-Beneath, who is her own own severed shadow.
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- Member
- paradoxosalpha
- Explications
- paradoxosalpha: Somewhat secondhand, by way of Through the Looking-Glass, but with fairy chess yet! A countess is a piece with a double knight's move (201).
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