{"id":72,"date":"2014-04-10T16:54:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T16:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2017-11-19T13:29:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T13:29:38","slug":"the-best-chess-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"The Best Chess Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are more than\u00a0two hundred belletristic works in my library in which the game of chess plays a more or less important role. Here I have chosen the \u2013 in my humble opinion \u2013 thirty best novels with chess as one of or the main topic (randomly sequenced):<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"The<\/a>\"Eine<\/a>\"Tactics<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. Vladimir Nabokov: The Defense<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Fernando Arrabal: The Tower Struck by Lightning<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Rudolf Jakob Humm: Spiel mit Valdivia<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Stefan Zweig: The Royal Game<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. Ichokas Meras: Stalemate<\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. John Brunner: The Squares of the City<\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. Barry N. Malzberg: Tactics of Conquest<\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. Walter Tevis: The Queen\u2019s Gambit<\/strong><\/li>\n
  9. Robert\u00a0<\/span>L\u00f6hr<\/span>: The Chess Automaton<\/strong><\/li>\n
  10. Bertina Henrichs: La joueuse d\u2019echecs<\/strong><\/li>\n
  11. Elias Canetti: Auto-da-fe<\/strong><\/li>\n
  12. Paolo Maurensig: The Luneburg Variation<\/strong><\/li>\n
  13. Thomas Glavinic: Carl Haffner\u2019s Love of the Draw<\/strong><\/li>\n
  14. Fabio Stassi: La rivincita di Capablanca<\/strong><\/li>\n
  15. Ronan Bennett: Zugzwang<\/strong><\/li>\n
  16. Wilhelm Heinse: Anastasia or The Chess Game<\/strong><\/li>\n
  17. Gustav Meyrink: The Golem<\/strong><\/li>\n
  18. Samuel Beckett: Murphy<\/strong><\/li>\n
  19. Guillermo Martinez: Regarding Roderer<\/strong><\/li>\n
  20. Andy Soltis: Los Voraces 2019<\/strong><\/li>\n
  21. Ernst J\u00fcnger<\/span>: A Dangerous Encounter<\/strong><\/li>\n
  22. Friedrich D\u00fcrrenmatt<\/span>: The Chess Player<\/strong><\/li>\n
  23. Yoko Ogawa: Swimming with Elephants<\/strong><\/li>\n
  24. Ilya Ilf\/Evgeny Petrov: The Twelve Chairs<\/strong><\/li>\n
  25. David Szalay: The Innocent<\/strong><\/li>\n
  26. Jesse Kraai: Lisa<\/strong><\/li>\n
  27. Jennifer DuBois: A Partial History of Lost Causes<\/strong><\/li>\n
  28. Michael Chabon: The Yiddish Policemen\u2019s Union<\/strong><\/li>\n
  29. Ignacio Padilla: Shadow without a Name<\/strong><\/li>\n
  30. Arne Danielsen: The Highest Rank<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Just for the record, there is at least one excellent\u00a0novel available in English translation that is featuring the game of Go: Kawabata Yasunari, The Master of Go (trans. by Edward Seidensticker), Vintage.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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