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
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
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5,024 membres
48 critiques
½ 3.7
3 Members
paradoxosalpha, ijustgetbored, ManWithAnAgenda
Explications
paradoxosalpha: Clearly derived from the Hypnerotomachia.
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340 membres
9 critiques
½ 3.7
2 Members
lquilter, spiphany
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86 membres
1 critique
4
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
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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4,871 membres
136 critiques
½ 3.7
2 Members
paradoxosalpha, norabelle414
Explications
paradoxosalpha: Features an enigmatic ages-spanning conspiracy constructed around chess.
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1,141 membres
23 critiques
½ 4.6
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757 membres
9 critiques
4
Member
paradoxosalpha
Explications
paradoxosalpha: Probably the earliest instance of the trope: the chess ballet in the court of Queen Eleuterylida.
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695 membres
11 critiques
3.8
Member
spiphany
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131 membres
3 critiques
3.1
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392 membres
6 critiques
4.2
Member
paradoxosalpha
Explications
paradoxosalpha: Takes place in the "Antipodes," an island country populated by animate game pieces.
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787 membres
13 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
paradoxosalpha
Explications
paradoxosalpha: Epigrams for each chapter give the chess perspective. The earliest espionage-as-chess novel?
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287 membres
5 critiques
3.1
Member
paradoxosalpha
Explications
paradoxosalpha: Unfortunately, the chess adventure was over by the end of the eighth chapter out of twenty.
15
1,135 membres
75 critiques
4.1
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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111 membres
5 critiques
½ 3.7
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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13 membres
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1,332 membres
203 critiques
2.9