Do you read chess-based Fiction?

I have VERY BIG difficulties with this one.

Would like that a name comes to my mind, but it just does not.

Well, Asimov, Foundation, the downfall of the Earrth into the abyss of timelessness and creative sterility.

I agree with you! This is exactly what I was asking, thank you. I think I'm on the right track then with my writing. I don't force feed the reader chess and I had one reviewer say "the chess parts are accurate."  If you decide to read my books, I'd like to hear what you thought. 

@Lyudmil_Tsvetkov, How about, Lord of the Rings, To Kill a Mockingird, Snow Falling on Cedars? Or authors like Raymond Chandler, Michael Chabon, Robert Heinlein, Philip K Dick and so many others?

Too insignificant story.

Unrealistic.

Novels are there to teach and edify, if there is not a new idea and the story is insignificant, what can you teach.

Tolkien wrote it earlier.

Fiction is definitely not dead.  Sure, I love a lot of older authors but there are many many younger writers doing great things in fiction.  As for chess fiction, I found a copy of Tevis' The Queen's Gambit not long ago and intend to read it soon.  Other than that, I haven't read much chess fiction.  I'm not opposed to it. Just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Having chess as part of a story definitely helps. I think of chess content as a bonus in fiction, where the basic things like plot and characters need to be good, of course, and if the chess part seems authentic on top of that, then great!

Unfortunately I don't seem to have the time for book fiction these days. Pre-internet age, I had read some famous chess novels like The Defense by Nabokov and The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis.

I'd like to read it, I just haven't found any yet (but this thread is ripe with options). 

I ended up reading the Lewis trilogy, after stumbling across it when looking for chess books.  But it wasn't really chess related at all. Which was disappointing. 

Find the script to this 1992 American thriller film if you want to read great chess fiction!

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Moves_(film)

But written before the War.

Yeah, some novels tickle your imagination.

But none inspires your feelings to the extent that you are ready to change the world.

It is the same old world, no inspiration, no change.

Btw., as of late, even science fiction masterpieces died away.

Not sure what war you're referring to, but WWII ended in the 40s. As for the rest of your statements, to each his own. All art is subjective.

As much as I hate to blow my own horn--actually, this doesn't bother me a whit, but I do dislike being caught outright while doing it--I have one chess short story to my credit, "Retrograde Analysis," published in the December 1987 issue of Analog.  Without giving too much away, I can tell you that the hero is Emanuel Lasker, visited by a time-traveler from the 21st century on the eve of leaving for his title match with Capablanca.  If you're interested, look the story up.  I only hope that in my portrayal of Lasker, I did him justice.

If you read it, I would be very happy should you care to e-mail me with your thoughts.

Did not Tolkien write it in 43?

I am happy, if you could enjoy art, but I can not.

In order to write a story and create a piece of art, you should have something real happening, something new, something original, inexperienced. As the human race has more or less already experienced everything in terms of emotions, there are no new stories to write.

That is why I took to beating SF.

@dntfeedthemnkys, I was planning on reading the Lewis trilogy as well for the same reason. Thanks for the heads up. I'll probably still read it someday, but without the chess expectation.

Thank you everyone for your feedback. Any other thoughts?