For this installment I would like to review two wonderful chess stories. The first is the classic novella “The Royal Game” by Stefan Zweig. It was written between 1938 and 1941 and published posthumously in 1942. The entire action takes pl...
My second in a series of blogs about chess in fiction literature is the classic short novel “The Defense” by Vladimir Nabokov. Nabokov is most famous for the controversial novel “Lolita”, but this, his third novel, is compelling for fans of chess...
As a fan of many kinds of literature, I of course enjoy stories that have to do with chess. Such stories abound and for those who might be intersted I thought I would create this blog to point you to some enjoyable reading. Bill Wall has already...
