Hello, Joshua, I really liked your idea after finished reading your article. I am really interested in this job, I know what kind of changes I would like to create, and some moods I or my opponent may have under certain situations.
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Thanks for your interest Stylish_Player,
I will email you the details soon.
Joshua
there are a few famous novels with chess positions.
also the oldest (or one of the oldest) chess game known is actually some poem where each move is a verse
I also have heard about a modified position in a James bond movie. The game was the famous Spassky Bronstein where spassky had a sweet win with the kings gambit. Not sure which bond movie it is.
If you need another person to bounce Idea's off of I would love to give my inputs.
How a principled and courageous person plays chess (likely would play e4 as white) Whereas another "good guy" Who is more reserved may prefer d4
how a shady provocitive character would likely enjoy flank openings.
A quick wit yet unwise person who loves to manipulate might enjoy some trappy gambits.
Also how moods and personality's would influence equally good but stylisticly different middle game moves and opportunities would be interesting to talk about.
I like the idea, but I'm curious.
I assume the characters are decent players, likely much better than the readers. No one cares much about the beginner, but if the characters were chess masters, now that's interesting.
However with a realistic position, which is to say sufficiently complex, the reader isn't likely to understand much from seeing the positions. In the same sense with a simple enough position the reader wont quite believe the character is a master.
What I'd suggest (i.e. what would be fun for me to see) is using a famous attacking game. You can even fudge the analysis, and best moves, but if the position presented is from an actual game that would be a lot of fun IMO.
As an example, the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey uses a real game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poole_versus_HAL_9000
Anyway, I think that gets the best of both worlds. The chess enthusiast will recognize or look up the game and enjoy it. Meanwhile the clueless reader will enjoy the superficial plot-necessitated analysis.
All you'd need to ask here would be for a list of amazing games (of course google can also help you there).
Hello chess players,
I am writing a novel which is to contain three pivotal scenes which are centred around chess games.
I joined this site 2 years ago so that I could get to grips with the game in order to write these scenes. These are very much fight scenes which much be choreographed like any fight scene in a movie. Images of the games and full transcripts will appear in the novel
Now although I have a large amount of the book written and edited, I had underestimated the vastness of chess, and I'm still not quite at the level where I feel I can choreograph these games. I need help.
Is there anyone who feels up to the challenge? I can offer the person a worthwhile credit in the foreword and in the back of the book.
Also, this book may evolve into a series and if so there will be much more work, which will be paid work.
Post here and I can give you more info, such as what kind of dynamic I want to occur over the board, what each player is like as a person, what moods they are in while in opening, midgame and endgame, what their relationship to their opponent is, etc.
Thankyou
Joshua