Chess fiction

There was another thread on chess in fiction, I read the "White death" which got better as I read it. I really liked it and the end was unexpected.

Now I'm reading "The eight" on my kindle. It's a long one and I'm only 10% of the way through but so far it has my attention.

Has anyone read any similar ones?

Glad you like my kind of books. Working on a sequel.... would you like to be looped in on release?

yeah! I liked the cliffhanger!

I have several older chess books that I would like to sell. If anyone would like the titles post here or ask me in a game. My ID is aaagirl

I liked The Chess Machine. Not the best book ever but entertaining.

A really good chess novel, my favorite, is The Queen's Gambit, by Walter Tevis.  You can get it here ---->> The Queen's Gambit

Tevis also wrote The Hustler, which was adapted into the 1961 film starring Paul Newman as "Fast Eddie" Felson.

I am still reading "the eight" by Katherine nevel. It's really good! It's long though.

Why does no one mention Stefan Zweig - The Royal Game?

The best, for my taste, is Nabokov's The Lushkin Defense. It's just not a novel about chess, it's a novel that works like chess. There's a scene where Lushkin is trying to cross a room, and everything works like a chessboard.

I also agree that Zweig and Nabokov are the best.  Queen's Gambit seemed average to mediocre to me.  There was also this odd, but funny story titled "Von Goom's Gambit" published many decades ago in a science fiction magazine.  Not quite successful, but a clever experiment is a science novel that was not really about chess but whose plot was completely based off a game between Steinitz and Chigorin -- The Squares of the City by John Brunner.  I think he even gave the moves in an appendix.  There was also the French novel La Partie d'echecs by Paul Berthier, which was not translated.

I'm reading queens gambit now. I am almost 3/4 of the way through and found it to be an enjoyable read. It does start out kind of strange, I can see how someone would give up on it.

Stefan Zweig's novella "Chess"

It's Zweig, not Sweig.

I have two favourite short stories from forty years ago (as in, when I first read them - they are older than that). One is called "Slippery Elm" and is a funny account of how a non-chessplayer works out how to help a bad chessplayer beat a good one (because the good one is a pompous bully and deserves it) by some ingenious cheating. The other, "Last Round", tells how a master in the twilight of his career both wins his last tournament and fulfils his lifelong quest for the Perfect Game, and uses as actual Charousek brilliancy as the perfect game. (Whether it's perfect or not is up for discussion, but the final checkmate is aesthetically pleasing and features two Queen sacrifices.)

Michael Weitz has won Chess Club Live's Best Chess Fiction Award. Over 260,000 chess fans were free to vote on a shortlist of brilliant chess novels.

https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Weitz/e/B00J496B38/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1

Two stories that convey the feeling of having been written by serious chess players:

The 64 Square Madhouse by Fritz Leiber and

Unsound Variations by George R. R. Martin

George R. R. Martin is a chess player and used to be a tournament director. So that makes sense.

http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?10349991

. . . I'm reading the EIGHT again . . .

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Her next book wasn't good . . . I posted about this book before

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/the-eight-----best-mystery-chess-related-book-ive-ever-read