Chess Stories

I was watching Lord of the Rings when a thought came to me:

When I play chess, it feels like a story is unfoldling as each move progresses. I think it would be fun to try and come up with a plot for a really interesting game.

For example: if it were to match the Lord of the Rings, maybe the ending moves would be a white pawn making it's way behind enemy lines and right before white is checkmated, the pawn promotes to a queen and ends the game.

Has this been done before? I was looking for examples but couldn't find any.

There was something similar in the Chess Player's Chronicle (mid-19th century). I'll post a link when I find a bit of time.

Cool! I'd like to see that.

(back from RL)

The first one is a poem describing a game of chess. The author was a better chessplayer than a poet but back then, people seemed to like such stuff:

http://books.google.it/books?id=iHwEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA274#v=onepage&q&f=false

The second one is a chess game delineaing a military campaign. I have more of these but in German (the Prussians were fond of it).

http://books.google.it/books?id=y6kSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA315#v=onepage&q&f=false

There were also 'thematic compositions', chess problems representing some event or notable object. I couldn't find a link but maybe I'll post an example in a separate thread.

Then there's Through the Looking Glass (at least, allegedly)...

Excellent post duck_and_cover! This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks so much.

The Flanders Panel is a murder mystery based upon a chess game. The protagonists of the game must work out a chess game depicted in a painting in order to figure out where the killer will strike next. Very good read.

Sorry, I didn't like it so much...